Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Police investigating incident at Plaza West Deli as a bias crime.
A swastika was found painted on the marquee sign for Plaza West Deli Sunday afternoon, Parsippany Police said. The establishment has been known for years as a restaurant offering kosher specialties on Route 10. Police said Officer Paul Levi responded after receiving a report of graffiti on a business sign. Upon arrival, Levi reported seeing an orange swastika painted on the Plaza West sign, which is about 15 feet back from Route 10 West. The crime is being investigated as a bias crime, Police Chief Anthony DeZenzo said. The swastika was on the west side of the sign, facing away from oncoming traffic, police said. The symbol, employed in Nazi Germany in the 1940s and seen by many as being anti-Semitic or hateful toward Jewish people, was …
Monday, July 16, 2012
Police ask anyone with information on incidents at Volunteers Park and Northvail School to contact authorities.
Parsippany Police are investigating two incidents of criminal mischief after graffiti was discovered last week at Volunteers Park and a window was found broken Monday at a township elementary school. A township Parks and Forestry Department employee discovered graffiti on the half-pipe skateboard ramp at Volunteers Park Friday morning, according to Parsippany Police. A second criminal mischief case, this time at Northvail Elementary School, is also the subject of a probe, police said. Just after 7 a.m. Monday, Officer Jermaine Pledger went to the school to interview a custodian, who said he discovered a door window on the north side of the building was broken, police said. The custodian said the incident occurred between 3 p.m. Friday and …
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
Anyone with information about the case is encouraged to contact police.
The Parsippany Police Department is investigating a number of criminal mischief cases involving damaged mailboxes that may have been vandalized with a baseball bat. Police report Officer Michael Kimble responded to a Brooklawn Drive home Sunday at about 2:30 to look into a report of damage to a mailbox. A resident told the officer that between 2 and 2:25 a.m., the mailbox had been smashed. Police said Kimble saw four other homes with maliboxes damaged. According to police, the mailboxes appear to have been bashed with a baseball bat. This appears not to be the first such incident. Police said two Sioux Avenue homes reported damage to curbside mailboxes Friday morning. In those incidents, according to law enforcement, the mailboxes appeared…
Pete
9:14 am on Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Sorry to hear that they're going out of the kosher-deli business... it's getting hard to find good kosher or kosher-style grub out here. more ›