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'Disaster Waiting To Happen': Paterson PD Raids Illegal After-Hours Club Rife With Violations 'Disaster Waiting To Happen': Paterson PD Raids Illegal After-Hours Club Rife With Violations
'Disaster Waiting To Happen': Paterson PD Raids Illegal After-Hours Club Rife With Violations Maskless patrons and employees scrambled to hide evidence when Paterson police raided an illegal after-hours club that had become a death trap, authorities said. Police found the door to La Café Hookah on Market Street locked when they showed up around 10:30 p.m. Saturday – a full half-hour after Gov. Phil Murphy’s COVID curfew required them to close, Public Safety Director Jerry Speziale said. City officers looking through tinted windows saw people “scrambling inside removing hookahs and bottles of alcohol and taking them out a back door that led to a small area with no exit,” Speziale sai…

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