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Zero Tolerance? From the JCDD incident reports, the city's tolerating illegal narcotics activities quite a bit throughout JC.

Different Directions? Yes, they're going anywhere but the known hot spots!

WHEW! Thank god it didn't make it to downtown! I feel much safer from being a mugging target now.

Clothier arrested for drug sales, pirated CDs
Wednesday, August 16, 2006
By JACK HERMAN
JOURNAL STAFF WRITER

Police in Jersey City busted the manager of a local clothing store who was peddling a bit more than the latest fashions, officials said.

Suvie J. Winruit, 33, was arrested late Sunday afternoon for selling drugs along with bootleg movies and music from his "Street Fashion Store" on West Side Avenue, authorities said.

"Our 'Zero Tolerance' efforts to stamp out the illegal narcotics trade in our city may take us in different directions, but so be it to fight any crime that supports illegal drug trafficking," Jersey City Mayor Jerramiah Healy said in a statement.

The Narcotics Squad, under the command of Sgt. John Redmond, initially took Winruit into custody for distributing large amounts of marijuana from his store. But a follow-up search turned up thousands of counterfeit DVDs and CDs, officials said.

Police discovered seven resealable bags of pot, 2,480 DVDs and 4,620 CDs, officials said. All the movies and music are believed to be illegally duplicated copies, officials said.

Winruit was charged with possession and distribution of marijuana within a school zone and violations of the New Jersey Anti-Piracy Act, officials said.

Julio C. Chevalier, 44, of Boyd Avenue, was also arrested after police nabbed him leaving the store with a bag of marijuana, officials said.