Wardrobe malfunction leads to arrest

By Karen Zautyk

 KEARNY—
Sometimes, they never learn.
Three weeks ago, a 21-year-old Devon St. man was nabbed for alleged possession of 10 bags of marijuana.
Two weeks ago, he was reportedly involved in a melee on Devon St.
Last week, he got in trouble with the cops again. Twice.
Shortly before midnight July 13, Officers Dean Gasser and Chris Medina were summoned to an accident at Chestnut and Boyd Sts., where one car had hit a parked vehicle and left the scene. Then, Police Chief John Dowie said, they found the alleged hit-run driver, the aforementioned Devon St. resident, sitting in his damaged car about a block away. That car, the chief said, “reeked of marijuana,” and the driver, of alcohol.

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