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Newark airline passenger stashed pot in Mary Jane wrappers, authorities charge

YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Talk about taking a nickname too far: A Toms River man checked a bag at Newark Airport that held several Mary Jane candy wrappers filled with pot, Port Authority police said.

Photo Credit: Courtesy TSA

Baggage screeners on Friday night alerted PAPD officers, who found seven small wrapped bags of marijuana in a larger ziplocked bag, along with a pack of Zig-Zag rolling papers in another, the authority’s Joseph Pentangelo told CLIFFVIEW PILOT.

The officers tracked 49-year-old Gregory Murphy to Gate 85, Pentangelo said.

Then they paged him.

Murphy was released on a court summons charging him with drug and paraphernalia possession.

PHOTO: Courtesy TSA

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