Roosevelt, NJ +Arrest Made in Paintball Incident Against Yeshiva+
Roosevelt, NJ An arrest has been made in connection with the paint-ball attack on a Yeshiva Me'on Hatorah, a Orthodox Jewish high school.
Details were not immediately available, but information on the arrest is forthcoming.
About midnight on Nov. 20, between 60 and 70 paint-ball pellets struck the side of a private house used by the Yeshiva Me'on Hatorah on Route 571, which is called North Rochdale Avenue in Roosevelt.
The dwelling houses 10 to 15 students, who were awakened around midnight Nov. 20 by the sounds of pellets striking the building, according to Josh Pruzansky, executive vice president of the yeshiva.
Details were not immediately available, but information on the arrest is forthcoming.
About midnight on Nov. 20, between 60 and 70 paint-ball pellets struck the side of a private house used by the Yeshiva Me'on Hatorah on Route 571, which is called North Rochdale Avenue in Roosevelt.
The dwelling houses 10 to 15 students, who were awakened around midnight Nov. 20 by the sounds of pellets striking the building, according to Josh Pruzansky, executive vice president of the yeshiva.
posted by VOS IZ NEIAS @ 11/28/2006 01:49:00 PM
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ROOSEVELT — Boredom, not hate, drove two teens to splatter a local Orthodox Jewish high school here with paint-balls, State Police said Tuesday.
The two teens charged in the Nov. 20 paint-ball attack targeted the Yeshiva Me'on Hatorah because they were bored, State Police Detective Mike Rosica said.
Michael Baniowski, 18, of Monroe and Brian Moore, 19, of Roosevelt each were charged with criminal mischief and harassment for going to the yeshiva's dormitory building around midnight Nov. 20 and firing between 60 to 70 paint-ball pellets at the side of the house, as well as eggs, Rosica said.
The teens were not charged with hate crimes in the incident, because their motive was not anti-Semitism, but "boredom," Rosica said. Criminal mischief and harassment are disorderly persons offenses that will be heard in Millstone Township's Municipal Court on Monday.
"After conducting extensive interviews with the two involved parties, there was no evidence this was a racially or religiously motivated incident," Rosica said.
Nevertheless, Rosica said it is possible that a year of tensions over whether the yeshiva is an appropriate fit for this small borough might have given the teens their target.
Rosica said the teens fell under suspicion after they returned to the yeshiva about 4 p.m. Friday — despite
publicity about the paint-ball attack — to taunt a group of students who were on foot near the school. The teens used derogatory terms to verbally harass the students from Moore's pickup, but did not use anti-Semitic epithets, he said.
"I was very pleased with the swift reaction with the State Police in this whole situation," said Josh Pruzansky, executive vice president of the yeshiva. "They took it very seriously, which led to a very swift conclusion."
Since the incident a week ago, authorities were looking for a pickup truck that had left tire prints outside the dorm building after the attack. In the past, Pruzansky said, harassment had come from people inside a black pickup.
"They tried to frighten them, they tried to harass them," Pruzansky said of the teens.
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