Several Pounds Of Pot Found In 2 Edison Arrests: Police

EDISON, NJ — Edison police confiscated several pounds of marijuana and nearly $9,000 in cash during two arrests in the township this past week.

The first arrest came early Sunday morning, police said, when officers noticed a car parked for a long time in a Cortlandt Street lot. In that stop, Christopher Randy Acosta, 31, of Colonia, was arrested after police say they found an open cognac bottle and $2,237 in his pockets and another $5,000, 12-ounces of marijuana, ten prescription pills and nine cannabis oil vape cartridges in a bag.

Acosta is currently being held in the Middlesex County Jail on several related drug charges.

The second stop happened Wednesday morning around 1:20 a.m., when police pulled Allen G. Keyes Jr., 32, of Highland Park, and Alexander J. Stone, 33, of Somerset, over after Keyes failed to use a turn signal onto Route 1, police said. A search of the car turned up $1,619 in cash, and a duffel bag with three pounds of marijuana, a jar and plastic bottle with more pit, hundreds of plastic baggies and three digital scales, police said.

Both men were charged and released ahead of a court date in New Brunswick Municipal Court.