Tuesday, September 12, 2006
Suspicious suitcase at Hatzlocho Grocery in Monsey turns out not to be a bomb
An abandoned suitcase discovered early yesterday morning outside a Monsey grocery store that has been rocked by a bogus kosher-meat scandal turned out to contain nothing that was explosive.
But for a few tense moments at 1 a.m. — just an hour into the fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks — the Rockland County bomb squad was treating the suitcase with the utmost suspicion.
"They X-rayed the suitcase and determined it was not a danger," Spring Valley police Sgt. Thomas Martin said. "It was some socks and a metal pill box."
It was unclear how much further detectives might investigate the case.
The scare started when an owner of the Hatzlocha Grocery on Maple Avenue noticed the abandoned suitcase on the sidewalk and called police.
About two weeks ago, the kosher grocery discovered that a butcher, Moshe Finkel, the owner of Shevach Meats, had been selling nonkosher meats as kosher to Orthodox Jewish families.
An investigation into the sale of the nonkosher chicken by the state's Department of Agriculture and Markets is expected to becompleted today.
With that controversy in the air, and the anniversary of the terrorist attacks, the owner did the right thing by calling police, Sgt. Martin said.
"I know that people are upset about the nonkosher meat, but what connection there is to that, I don't know," he said.
"We have it here," Martin said of the suitcase. "If no one shows up for it, we will probably throw it away."
http://www.thejournalnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060912/NEWS03/609120353/1019/NEWS03
An abandoned suitcase discovered early yesterday morning outside a Monsey grocery store that has been rocked by a bogus kosher-meat scandal turned out to contain nothing that was explosive.
But for a few tense moments at 1 a.m. — just an hour into the fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks — the Rockland County bomb squad was treating the suitcase with the utmost suspicion.
"They X-rayed the suitcase and determined it was not a danger," Spring Valley police Sgt. Thomas Martin said. "It was some socks and a metal pill box."
It was unclear how much further detectives might investigate the case.
The scare started when an owner of the Hatzlocha Grocery on Maple Avenue noticed the abandoned suitcase on the sidewalk and called police.
About two weeks ago, the kosher grocery discovered that a butcher, Moshe Finkel, the owner of Shevach Meats, had been selling nonkosher meats as kosher to Orthodox Jewish families.
An investigation into the sale of the nonkosher chicken by the state's Department of Agriculture and Markets is expected to becompleted today.
With that controversy in the air, and the anniversary of the terrorist attacks, the owner did the right thing by calling police, Sgt. Martin said.
"I know that people are upset about the nonkosher meat, but what connection there is to that, I don't know," he said.
"We have it here," Martin said of the suitcase. "If no one shows up for it, we will probably throw it away."
http://www.thejournalnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060912/NEWS03/609120353/1019/NEWS03
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