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Lodi mechanic, 40, charged with having sex with girl, 16, giving teens booze

YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A 40-year-old mechanic from Passaic had sex with a 16-year-old girl and gave her and another teen alcohol in his Lodi garage, authorities said today.

Photo Credit: Courtesy BERGEN COUNTY PROSECUTOR

Garrett Haskins was being held on $150,000 bail in the Bergen County Jail after members of the county prosecutor’s Special Victims Unit and Lodi police arrested him yesterday.

An investigation began after the girl told a friend, who responded to the garage to investigate, Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli said this afternoon.

Molinelli said his detectives had police take the girl to Hackensack University Medical Center.

She was then interviewed by detectives from the SVU and Lodi police and “provided specific details” about what happened, the prosecutor said.

Haskins, who is single, is charged with attempted sexual assault, criminal sexual contact and three counts of child endangerment — two for allegedly providing alcohol to a minor.

He’s due for arraignment this coming Wednesday.

MUGSHOT: Courtesy BERGEN COUNTY PROSECUTOR

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