Thursday, December 10, 2015

Suspicious device on NJ Transit bus to Lakewood was a clock

NJ.com A frum passenger had just got off a flight  from Israel had a alarm clock that sparked a scare on a NJ transit bus to Lakewood.NJ.com reports, He was heading to see his family in Lakewood, and had a clock on top of his lap that he was using to tell time.
The suspicious device that prompted an evacuation of an NJ Transit bus Thursday morning on Route 9 was a small travel clock, police said. The bus was on its way to Lakewood from Newark when Marlboro police stopped it at around 8:30 a.m. on Route 9 near Robertsville Road, said Jim Smith, a NJ Transit spokesman. 

As passengers were exiting the bus at various stops along the route, several people alerted the driver that they noticed a suspicious device on the lap of a man, Marlboro police chief Bruce Hall said. 

Hall said the man had just got off a flight from Israel and was heading to see his family in Lakewood, and had a clock on top of his lap that he was using to tell time.

"He had very little rest and he was trying to be on time to visit his family," Hall said, adding that the man was part of the Orthodox Jewish community in Lakewood. read more from NJ.com


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