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“I knew you were coming,” 21-year-old Shawn Chavannes told them.
“Then he showed us his phone,” Detective James DePreta said. “His friend just texted him the link to the CLIFFVIEW PILOT story.”
SEE: Rochelle Park police trace steps in snow, charge Teaneck man who fled with stashing ounce of pot
Chavannes was being held on a combined $3,250 bail in the Bergen County Jail.
Chavannes originally was released on a summons after police said they caught him and four other men peering into the windows of cars parked outside the Ramada Inn on West Passaic Street Saturday night.
They brought additional charges of hindering and obstruction against him for providing a fake name “in an attempt to avoid arrest for open warrants,” DePreta said (Teaneck wanted him on a January theft warrant and the Palisades Interstate Parkway police on a marijuana possession charge from this past September, records show).
It turned out the group tried to reserve a hotel room to “party” but were refused because there were too many of them, he said.
One of them ran off as officers approached them in the parking lot but was caught hiding under a Garden State Parkway overpass by Paramus police a short time later.
That man, 23-year-old Lakeith Griffin, stashed a jar of pot that was later found by a Rochelle Park patrol officer who retraced his steps in the snow, DePreta said. READ MORE….
MUGSHOT: Courtesy ROCHELLE PARK PD
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