Crime & Safety
Police: Worker at Carnival in Franklin Lakes Arrested on Heroin, Xanax Charges
Police were alerted to the carnival by a call of suspicious activity, cops said.
As local residents were trying to win goldfish and oversized stuffed monkeys at a carnival in Franklin Lakes over the weekend, one of the attraction's workers was arrested on drug possession charges, borough police announced in a release Monday.
According to Franklin Lakes Detective Lieutenant John Bakelaar, police received a report at about 7:40 p.m. Saturday night of suspicious activity and possible drug use at the carnival being held on Franklin Lakes Road over the weekend.
After an investigation into the complaint, one of the carnival's employee's, Nathaniel Oliver, 53, of Newark, was arrested and charged with possession of Heroin and possession of Xanax, police said.
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Cops said they could not release specific details about the nature of the suspicious activity that prompted the call.
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