HACKENSACK: GUN AND DRUG RAIDS

A hundred people were arrested on charges of selling drugs and firearms
during overnight raids at their homes in 39 towns in Bergen County and in
Paterson and Passaic in Passaic County, the authorities said. "This puts a
major dent in drug distribution and drug dealing in Bergen County," the
Bergen County prosecutor, John L. Molinelli, said after the suspects were
arraigned in a makeshift court at an armory in Lodi. Mr. Molinelli said a
task force of local, county, state and federal law enforcement agencies
began undercover drug purchases in June after the police in several Bergen
towns reported increases in illegal drug sales in their communities.