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Worker Charged With Dumping Trash In 300-Year-Old Rahway Cemetery Worker Charged With Dumping Trash In 300-Year-Old Rahway Cemetery
Worker Charged With Dumping Trash In 300-Year-Old Rahway Cemetery Police in Rahway charged a 78-year-old caretaker for allegedly disposing of garbage in a historic graveyard founded decades before the American Revolution.  Eric Rickes was charged with desecration of a place of burial after police obtained a warrant to search Rahway Cemetery Wednesday. Police sought the warrant after learning that Rickes was throwing waste into grave sites, the department said in a statement Thursday.  Rickes had earlier been ordered to remove waste and debris around the cemetery by the health department, police also said.  “While these are allegations at t…