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RECOGNIZE THEM? Women Enter Hindu Priest's Mahwah Home While Young Daughter Is There RECOGNIZE THEM? Women Enter Hindu Priest's Mahwah Home While Young Daughter Is There
Recognize Them? Women Enter Hindu Priest's Mahwah Home While Young Daughter Is There Authorities were searching for two uninvited strangers who reportedly entered the home of a Hindu priest in Mahwah but were scared off. Pandit Devendra Shukla was at the Samaj Temple and his wife and daughter at their West Ramapo Avenue home nearby when a black SUV parked out front this past weekend. A Ring doorbell camera shows a woman in a COVID mask walking up to the front door, knocking hard twice, then peering into a window. The woman then heads back to the car and returns with a second woman. The second one, also wearing a mask with a large scarf wrapped around her head and neck, pu…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Route 17 Shopping Center Fires Set By Rockland Man: Bergen Prosecutor Route 17 Shopping Center Fires Set By Rockland Man: Bergen Prosecutor
Route 17 Shopping Center Fires Set By Rockland Man: Bergen Prosecutor Back-to-back fires behind two Ramsey shopping centers were deliberately set by an unemployed Rockland man, authorities charged. Nicholas Todaro, 37, of Orangeburg ignited the first one in a wooded area behind the Spring Street shopping center just off northbound Route 17 shortly after 6:30 p.m. Jan. 5, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. Roughly 20 minutes later, he set a second fire in a wooded area behind the Interstate Shopping Center nearly a mile down the road on the highway’s southbound side, the prosecutor said. Ramsey firefighters quickly doused both blazes, Musella said. …

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by Jerry DeMarco
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BIAS CRIME? Hindus Demand Justice For Mahwah Priest In Alleged Ramsey Parking Lot Assault BIAS CRIME? Hindus Demand Justice For Mahwah Priest In Alleged Ramsey Parking Lot Assault
Bias Crime? Hindus Demand Justice For Mahwah Priest In Alleged Ramsey Parking Lot Assault His young daughter cowered in the back seat as a Hindu priest was attacked by a Mahwah man during a road-rage incident in the parking lot of a Route 17 shopping center in Ramsey, according to a police complaint. Members of the Hindu community are now demanding justice in the alleged attack. Ramsey police charged Nicholas Dow, 30, who lives next door to the Hindu Samaj Temple of Mahwah on West Ramapo Avenue, with simple assault and burglary following the April 3 incident at the Interstate Shopping Center. They then referred the case to the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office to be considered…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Miracle: No One Hurt In Ramsey Shopping Center Crash Miracle: No One Hurt In Ramsey Shopping Center Crash
Miracle: No One Hurt In Ramsey Shopping Center Crash RAMSEY, N.J. -- No injuries were reported after a sedan with out-of-state plates slammed into a support column, mounted a curb and took down a sign at a busy Ramsey shopping center late Tuesday afternoon. Another vehicle struck a parked tow truck moments later at the Interstate Shopping Center off Franklin Turnpike. The first car, which had Ohio license plates, struck the support column in front of the 5 Below store. It then hit another vehicle, mounted the curb and took down the sign post before coming to a stop. An Upper Saddle River EMS unit evaluated the driver, who walked with a cane …

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by Jerry DeMarco