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MOSQUE ATTACK: Intruders Pelt NJ Worshippers With Rocks MOSQUE ATTACK: Intruders Pelt NJ Worshippers With Rocks
Mosque Attack: Intruders Pelt NJ Worshippers With Rocks Congregants were praying at a mosque in Paterson when three intruders suddenly burst in and threw rocks at them, authorities confirmed. One of the assailants held the door for the other two after nearly 100 worshippers had gathered at the Islamic Congregation of North Jersey on Preakness Avenue -- one of five services held each day -- shortly after 8:30 p.m. Monday. Two people were hit, but neither was seriously injured, authorities said Thursday. Mosque officials said they had no choice but to begin locking the doors after this week's bias attack, which followed another involving an intr…

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Sheriff: Man Angered By Call To Prayer Charged With Assault At NJ Mosque Sheriff: Man Angered By Call To Prayer Charged With Assault At NJ Mosque
Sheriff: Man Angered By Call To Prayer Charged With Assault At NJ Mosque A Paterson man was charged with a bias assault at a local mosque, authorities said. Angered by the amplified daily call to prayer at the Islamic Congregation of North Jersey, Edward Wright pushed and struck the assistant Imam who was holding the microphone, knocking it from his hands, Passaic County Sheriff Richard Berdnik said. Wright, 57, also made threats while telling the mostly Bengali congregation that "this needs to stop" and they "need to go somewhere else," the sheriff said. "I don't want to hear that [expletive] every day," he allegedly added during the Dec. 23, 2021 incident. S…

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Mystery Deepens In Drunken NJ Man's Disappearance Mystery Deepens In Drunken NJ Man's Disappearance
Mystery Deepens In Drunken NJ Man's Disappearance UPDATE: Three weeks to the day that a Haledon man mysteriously went missing in Paterson, no one seems any closer to finding him. According to family members, Felix DeJesus was last seen around 6 p.m. Feb. 2 near a Union Avenue bodega.  He’d been drinking quite a bit -- as he would often do, they said -- and apparently had been bothering a woman there, they said. Police responded and took DeJesus away in handcuffs, the bodega owner reportedly told them.  A detective later told a family member that the officers dropped DeJesus off near the corner of Preakness Avenue and Front Street withou…

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by Jerry DeMarco