Police arrested four New York men and seized marijuana, altered driver's licenses and air-powered guns after a stop at a Palisades Interstate Parkway gas station, authorities said Thursday.
Palisades Interstate Parkway Police said they arrested four men on weapons offenses in Englewood Cliffs Jan. 4, 2015. (File photo)
According to police, PIP officers Jeffrey Lamboy and Gregory Kimbro, Jr. were working in plainclothes late Monday morning when they spotted a Volkswagen Jetta parked with various equipment violations at a service station on the northbound highway.
Officers also smelled marijuana coming from the car and asked four men to step out of the vehicle, police said in a statement.
A search revealed a loaded Powerline air handgun and a Remington Black Magic air rifle in the truck, according to PIP police.
The four -- Demetrios Andriopoulos, 20, of Little Neck, New York, Steven Devito, 18, of Staten Island, Mark Matinale, 20, of Douglaston, New York, and Daniel Colflesh, 20, of Little Neck, New York -- were each charged with possession of a handgun and possession of a rifle, police said. They told officers they shared the guns.
Andriopoulos, the driver, had an altered New York license with another person's information on it, according to police. He faces added charges, including having an altered government document.
Devito and Matinale were charged with having false identifications, police said.
The search also turned up a vacuum-sealed bag of marijuana, a bong-style pipe, a metal grinder and rolling papers, according to police.
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