EXCLUSIVE: A judge in Hackensack on Friday approved a plea-bargained six-year prison sentence for a Jersey City man caught by Fort Lee police with six pounds of pure heroin for sale during a George Washington Bridge stop last summer.
While insisting that she was “not overlooking the seriousness of the offense,” Superior Court Judge Margaret M. Foti upheld the plea deal brokered with prosecutors by defense attorney Adam Lustberg, which could have 25-year-old Ernis Beato freed in 18 months…