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.
Thats near the Mesivta.
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.