Bath Salts Found in Englewood Cliffs Parkway Stop, Police Say

Two Brooklyn men face charges after a car stop on the Palisades Interstate Parkway in Englewood Cliffs led to the discovery of bath salts, pills and other drugs, police said Monday. 

Palisades Interstate Parkway Police Officer Gregory Kimbro pulled over a 2011 Honda Accord late Friday morning for a cracked windshield at the Sunoco Gas Station, but smelled marijuana coming from the car while gathering information from the driver, according to a police statement. There were two passangers in the car.

After getting consent to search the car, Kimbro discovered two bags, police said. 

In the first bag, belonging to 19-year-old passenger Bernie Meisner, the officer found eight vials of Ketamine, six small baggies of crushed bath salts, seven amphetamine pills, two suboxone pills, a baggie with 11 capsules of bath salts and multiple empty pill bags, PIP Lt. Michael Coppola said. 

Kimbro found a plastic container of marijuana, a metal grinder and several cigars in the second bag belonging to another passenger, 20-year-old Simon Tauber, Coppola said. 

Meisner faces drug charges, including intent to distribute and was ordered held at the Bergen County Jail on $70,000 bail, with no 10 percent option. Tauber was charged in connection with the pot and released. 

The driver, 22-year-old Elana Lefland, also of Brooklyn, was ticketed for the windshield. All are due in court Tuesday.

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