FAIR LAWN – A woman who found a string that looked like a noose in her front yard on Sunday morning now believes that she wasn t targeted.
Kelli McCloud told New Jersey 101.5 that she called police after making the discovery in her tree on Sunday morning. She also posted about it on social media, which drew the attention of Mayor Kurt Peluso
Police initially believed that the string had been left by a utility crew working on downed power lines, but Peluso disputed that after speaking with the utility companies, whose representatives insisted to him that their workers would not have left that behind.
FAIR LAWN A noose found in a Fair Lawn tree on Saturday night is under investigation as a possible hate crime even though a police official at first downplayed the incident.
Mayor Kurt Peluso told New Jersey 101.5 on Monday that a Black resident called police after seeing what looked like a noose in her front yard.
A police spokesman initially told the Daily Voice Fair Lawn/Glen Rock that the incident did not appear to be a hate crime. He said the knot was made of polypropylene string that had been used by utility workers who had been dispatched to the area to deal with downed wires.