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Before March 31, this was a common scenario in New York's poorer neighborhoods: Police officers approach a group of young men, one says he smells marijuana, so he and his colleagues frisk everybody present. The Marijuana Regulation and Taxation Act has upended that scenario completely.
Jason Alicea, 21, struck the pair of cyclists as he was getting off the Brooklyn Bridge on the Brooklyn side around 8:15 p.m. Tuesday and drove about more five blocks before he was stopped and arrested, according to police.