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Danny J. Lazo, 31, who's spent more than six years of his life in prison, was arrested twice in Essex County earlier this year -- for resisting arrest by force and eluding police in June, then for hindering his prosecution by trying to get witnesses to recant the following month, records show.
Each time a judge released him, with conditions, under New Jersey's 2017 bail reform law, records show.
Lazo had served two prison stretches for robbery convictions -- one from February 2007 to late December 2011, and another from January 2013 to March 2015 -- both out of Essex, as well.
He remained held in the Hudson County Detention Center in Kearny pending a hearing following an arrest last Tuesday in Jersey City, apparently after a traffic stop turned up pot and a pellet gun.
Lazo is charged with drug and weapons offenses, including being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm.
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