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Hoboken Street Fight Stabbing Was Self-Defense, Attorney For Lyndhurst Man Says Hoboken Street Fight Stabbing Was Self-Defense, Attorney For Lyndhurst Man Says
Hoboken Street Fight Stabbing Was Self-Defense, Attorney For Lyndhurst Man Says UPDATE: A Lyndhurst man was defending himself when he stabbed a North Bergen man who attacked him in Hoboken, his lawyer told a judge in Jersey City on Tuesday. "It's self defense, clear self defense," attorney Adam Lustberg of Hackensack said after the judge released Andre Mateus, 26, with conditions following a Zoom hearing. The trouble began at the Tally-Ho bar at the south end of Washington Avenue on Sept. 28.  Two groups got into a dispute that Lustberg said ended when the 22-year-old man who was later stabbed knocked a drink out of his client's hand. Mateus and his friends left…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Hudson County Arsonist Set Fire To Local Synagogue, Authorities Say Hudson County Arsonist Set Fire To Local Synagogue, Authorities Say
Hudson County Arsonist Set Fire To Local Synagogue, Authorities Say A man was being held on an aggravated arson charge in connection with a fire at a Hudson County synagogue earlier this month, authorities said. Oswaldo Domingo Xil-Argueta, 29, is accused of torching Mesivta Sanz Yeshiva and its synagogue on 34th Street in Union City around 3 a.m. on July 3, Hudson County Prosecutor Esther Suarez said. There were no occupants in the building at the time of the two-alarm blaze. The Union City Police Department and the Hudson County Regional Arson Task Force arrested Xil-Argueta on July 5, on charges of first-degree aggravated arson and criminal mi…

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by Cecilia Levine