Lyndhurst police officer stops Brooklyn driver with bagfull of illegal pills

ONLY ON CVP: A Brooklyn man told a Lyndhurst police officer who stopped him that he took a shopping bag-full of illegal prescription pills from a friend who couldn’t pay a $7,000 debt, authorities said.

Jerry DeMarco

07/01/2015 1:54 p.m.

Nasim Bhatti, 37, was stopped at Marginal and Ridge roads in Rutherford for doing 44 miles an hour in a 25mph zone last Friday night, Capt. John Valente told CLIFFVIEW PILOT.

He wasn’t wearing a seatbelt and no had no registration or insurance for the 2007 Nissan, he said.

Bhattai first tried to claim he got the drugs from a company he worked for six years ago, but “the expiration dates on the bottles was 2017,” Valente said.

Charged with illegal drug possession and distribution counts, Bhatti posted $100,000 bail and was released yesterday from the Bergen County Jail pending grand jury action.

MUGSHOT: Courtesy LYNDHURST PD

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