Rutherford Synagogue Firebomb Suspect May Have Tried To Buy Weapons Before Arrest
"Someone like Mr. Graziano, let's just say it's probably best we did make the arrest when we did," Bergen County Prosecutor John Molinelli said Wednesday.
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"Someone like Mr. Graziano, let's just say it's probably best we did make the arrest when we did," Bergen County Prosecutor John Molinelli said Wednesday.
The arrest of Anthony Graziano of Lodi comes just days after the Bergen County Prosecutor's Office released video of a "person of interest" sought in the investigation into the firebombing.
Investigators say surveillance video shows him leaving a Walmart on Route 46 in Saddle Brook after buying materials to make Molotov cocktails.
"I think we can use this act of hatred an act of unity," said Rabbi Nosson Schulman. "Use that hatred and turn it inside out to love."
For Rabbi Nosson Schuman and his wife, it's getting a little easier to sleep in their bedroom again. This is just days after someone firebombed their home and synagogue in Rutherford.
The firebombing of Rabbi Nosson Schuman's residence next to Congregation Beth El marked the fourth hate crime targeted at a Jewish center in the past month.
Rabbi Nosson Schuman, who lives in the home with his wife and five children, said he saw a flash of fire outside his bedroom window before his bedspread caught fire.
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