A man stopped by police for a broken tail light claimed to be a federal agent before officers impounded his car and discovered a stash including weapons and hundreds of doses of illegal drugs, police said Sunday.
Steven Greytak, 41, was sitting in his car at a gas station in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, on Friday when two officers noticed his broken tail light, according to the Palisades Interstate Parkway Police. When the officers approached him, they smelled what seemed to be marijuana in his car, police said.
Greytak, who lives in Patchogue, New York, claimed he was an agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives; then, when the officers searched him, they found a switch blade and a container of pills, police said.
According to police, a search of his car uncovered nearly 300 Xanax pills, about one pound of marijuana and about 25 grams of hashish - as well as marijuana candy, MDMA, Cocaine, hydrocodone, a machete and various knives, and a scale.
Greytak was arrested on charges of impersonation of a police officer and a number of drug offenses. It wasn't immediately clear if he had a lawyer.
