Lyndhurst PD: Passaic man wouldn’t slow down and now he’s behind bars

One Passaic man really should have just slowed down. Instead, he finds himself behind bars at the Bergen County Jail because he just couldn’t and wouldn’t.

According to Lyndhurst Police Department Public Information Officer Paul Haggerty:

On Friday, Aug. 29, 2025 at 9:37 a.m., Officer Montoya observed a white Ford F-350 pickup truck traveling at a high rate of speed in the area of Rutherford and Stuyvesant avenues. Because the driver was doing so errartically, Officer Montoya was unable to safely catch up to the vehicle, so he radioed his observations to other patrol units on the road…

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