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UPDATE: A Clifton man who texted threats to Paterson’s first Muslim police chief because of his race, religion and nationality got plea-bargained probation.
Stefan Keco, 29, who spent more than 15 months in the Passaic County Jail, also was ordered to attend counseling and to not have any contact with Chief Ibrahim Baycora, in addition to the three-year probationary sentence.
Rather than face trial, Keco took a deal from prosecutors following an investigation by city police and including the FBI, Passaic County Prosecutor’s Office and other law enforcement agencies.
In exchange for leniency, Keco pleaded guilty early last month to two counts of making terroristic threats, telling a Superior Court judge in Paterson that he sent the texts to Baycora in February “with the purpose to terrorize him and in reckless disregard of the risk of causing such terror.”
The all-female staff at Clifton's Palestinian American Community Center received about 30 calls including slurs, death threats and threats of sexual abuse.
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