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Paterson Squatter Admits Torching Multi-Family Home In Purported Suicide Try Paterson Squatter Admits Torching Multi-Family Home In Purported Suicide Try
Paterson Squatter Admits Torching Multi-Family Home In Purported Suicide Try A Paterson squatter who set fire to a multi-family home after authorities said he deliberately stabbed himself has pleaded guilty to aggravated arson. Ertugrul Abaci, 58, bled heavily as he staggered across Sussex Street on June 9, 2019, authorities said at the time. He’d just ignited a fire in and outside the attic apartment where he’d lived nearly 23 years – and hadn’t paid rent on for the past five, they said. The German-born Abaci, who became a U.S. citizen after emigrating in the early 1990s, used a bottle of vodka as an accelerant after taking a few swigs from it, investigators said.…

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