Police charge Hillsborough man with bag of cocaine in his truck (The Star-Ledger)

January 07, 2010, 1:34PM

HILLSBOROUGH — A township man was arrested Wednesday on drug charges after police learned he would be in the area with cocaine in his truck, authorities said today.

Florencio Pinelo, 33, of Capricorn Drive, was charged with third-degree cocaine possession and a disorderly persons charge for possession of drug paraphernalia, Somerset County Prosecutor Wayne Forrest said. Pinelo was released on his own recognizance.

Authorities were told the man would be driving a white pickup truck in the area of Amwell Road. Members of the prosecutor’s Organized Crime and Narcotics Task Force, Hillsborough police and the department’s K-9 unit established surveillance and saw Pinelo get into a truck in the area of Capricorn Drive, Forrest said.

Officials followed him to Atkinson Circle where they approached him and found a bag of cocaine with an estimated street value of $300 in his jacket pocket, Forrest said.