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Our reporter Debra Rubin says there’s movement in the Middlesex cemetery desecration:

Suspects were picked up late last night. Info is being prepared for release by Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office. 

Full story to come as soon as we get it.

[UPDATE: A restoration fund has been established. ADL says four suspects, all juveniles, have been arrested.]

ADL Applauds New Jersey Law Enforcement For Arrests In Cemetery DesecrationWest Orange, NJ, January 10, 2008… The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today welcomed the arrest of four suspects in connection with the toppling of more than 500 headstones at the Poile Zedek Cemetery in New Brunswick, New Jersey, an attack that was “heinous and shocking” in its magnitude and level of destruction within a religious community burial ground. “We welcome the arrests in this heinous and utterly shocking attack against a Jewish burial ground in New Brunswick,” said Etzion Neuer, ADL New Jersey Regional Director.  “The arrests send an important message to the community that these kinds of attacks are unacceptable.  We hope that the alleged perpetrators will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, and that hate crime enhancement penalties will be applied if the crimes were motivated by anti-Semitism.”The suspects, all juveniles, are accused of vandalizing the cemetery on two occasions: On January 1, 2008, when approximately 17 headstones were damaged; and on January 4, 2008, when another 500 headstones were toppled and overturned.ADL applauded the swift work of the New Brunswick Police Department, Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office and New Jersey Division of Criminal Justice - Bias Crimes Unit for their efforts in apprehending the suspects.

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