A Secaucus man and a North Bergen woman were arrested and charged after a seven-month investigation into alleged cocaine distribution, according to the Secaucus Police Department.
In June 2025, detectives received information that Mohamed Laib was “distributing cocaine from his Paulanne Terrace residence.” Police said he used the location “to store cash proceeds derived from his illicit drug distribution scheme” and stored cocaine at his girlfriend’s residence “located on the 1400 block of Paterson Plank Road in North Bergen.”
On January 23, 2026, shortly after 7:00 p.m., detectives “observed Mohamed Laib engage in a drug transaction on Fairview Avenue in Secaucus with Steven Liptai.” Both men “were found in possession of cocaine at the time they were stopped and both were subsequently placed under arrest.”…