Stop by Bergen sheriff's officer leads to loaded gun, pot, 5 arrests

CVP BROKE THE STORY: A Bergen County Sheriff's officer posting foreclosure notices chased down a careless driver, leading to a major haul: a pair of handguns, bags of pot and more than $3,500 in cash, along with a convicted carjacker paroled two months ago and an Englewood 18-year-old facing his second weapons possession charge in under a year.

Wilson, Rountree, Frazier, Jones, Folkes

(MUGSHOTS courtesy Bergen County Sheriff)

Sheriff's Officer William Woods spotted the 1999 Malibu speeding and shifting lanes on Broadway in Fair Lawn just after 8 o'clock Sunday night, said Richard Moriarty, Sheriff Michael Saudino's administrative services director.

Four other men were with the driver, who told Woods he was on his way to Paterson and couldn't explain why he was driving carelessly.

The smell of burning pot convinced Woods to ask the driver, Kandell Jones, for his consent to search the car. He agreed, Moriarty said. bcso1

Fellow Sheriff's Officer Timothy Scannell had arrived as Woods ordered the other four out of the car.

All five were placed under arrest after Woods spotted a gun handle and Scannel found a loaded .45-caliber automatic under the passenger seat, Moriarty said.

The officers also found an unloaded .38-caliber revolver and several plastic bags of "greenish brown vegetation," according to their reports.

All five occupants said they had no idea how the guns or drugs got there.

During a subsequent patdown, Moriarty said, the officers found one man, identified as 22-year-old Tahref Lamar Folkes carrying a .38-caliber bullet in his pocket.

Tahref Lamar Folkes

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N.J. Dept. of Corrections)

Folkes was released from a state prison on Nov. 22 after serving two and a half years on a robbery conviction stemming from a carjacking.

Another passenger, Tyeshawn Wilson, also 22, was carrying $3,535 in cash, the Monday night report shows.

Although only 18, this is the second weapons charge against Daquin Frazier, who was out on bail following his arrest last May for an Easter Day 2010 holdup in Closter.

In that case, Frazier is charged with robbery and aggravated assault in what was described as a drug deal gone bad. Police in that case found one of the victims, an Englewood 16-year-old, carrying a gun that was stolen out of Pennsylvania.

The fifth man was identified Quadair Davone Rountree, 25.

Each is being held on $50,000 tonight in the Bergen County Jail, charged with various weapons and drug counts.

Wilson also was wanted out of Passaic and Bloomfield for driving without a license, records show. Jones was issued a careless driving summons.

Sheriff's investigators entered information on the guns into a state database to try and determine where they came from.