Retiree Charged With Setting Fire In Fort Lee Luxury High-Rise

A Fort Lee retiree deliberately set a fire in his luxury high-rise apartment overlooking Manhattan, authorities said.

The Charlton, 15th Street, Fort Lee
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01/27/2022 9:30 a.m.

Jay Freedman, 60, was arrested following an investigation into the late-afternoon fire Tuesday in his eighth-floor apartment in the Charlton, a 20-story high rise off Bergen Boulevard, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said.

Responders quickly doused it, Musella said.

Freedman, meanwhile, was charged with a minor count of causing or risking widespread injury or damage, then was released pending a Feb. 11 first appearance in Central Judicial Processing Court in Hackensack, the prosecutor said.

His Major Crimes Unit Arson Squad investigated with Fort Lee police, he said.

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