Passaic, NJ – Suspicious Package Forces Evacuation of Yeshiva

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    Passaic, NJ – Residents and students were evacuated Tuesday night while a bomb squad from the Passaic County Sheriff’s Department disarmed a “suspicious” package left near the corner of Temple Place and Harding Court, a sheriff’s spokesman said.

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    There were no injuries.

    The package — a cooler with wires protruding — turned out to be “non-explosive,” said Bill Maer, a sheriff’s department spokesman. The cooler also contained batteries.

    “There was a power source in the device,” Maer said.   

    City police and firefighters, the bomb squad, and the Passaic County Prosecutor’s Joint Terrorism Task Force were dispatched to the corner around 6 p.m., after someone spotted the package on the sidewalk in front of two homes, he said.

    City police blocked off streets and evacuated residents from both homes and a dozen students from the Tiferes Rav Zvi Aryeh Zemel School on Temple Place, Maer said.  

    The bomb squad X-rayed the cooler and then disarmed it, Maer said.

    The incident was still under investigation Tuesday.


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    LiberalismIsADisease
    LiberalismIsADisease
    13 years ago

    Thats near the Mesivta.

    ALLAN
    ALLAN
    13 years ago

    This appears to be a case of let’s terrorize the Jews in an area that wasn’t bothered before. This was a obvious attempt to instill fear and disrupt normal daily activities. I hope whoever did this is found and punished to the fullest extent the law allows. I can’t even imagine anyone in disageement with the last line or even the entire posting.