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UPDATE: Following a lengthy investigation, Fair Lawn police said Tuesday that a length of string found tied to a tree that took a disturbing shape this past weekend wasn t a noose but, rather, was an item used by contractors. The rope in question was closer in size to twine (thinner than a shoe lace) that is regularly used by utility companies to either tie cables together or to pull new cables from pole to pole, Sgt. Brian Metzler said. It appears that the twine, found tied to the tree, had been attached to twine found in the overhead cables, Metzler said.
‘Noose’ found in front of N.J. home may have been utility company rope and not a crime, cops say
Updated Jan 19, 2021;
Posted Jan 19, 2021
Police found utility company rope hanging from cables in Bergen County near the home of a resident who reported finding a similar object and calling it a noose. Fair Lawn PD
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Police in Bergen County said Tuesday a rope that appeared to be fashioned into a noose and found dangling from a resident’s tree may have actually been left behind by a utility company and “not a deliberate act.”
“The rope in question was closer in size to twine – thinner than a shoe lace – that is regularly used by utility companies to either tie cables together or to pull new cables from pole to pole,” Fair Lawn Police Sgt. Brian Metzler said in a statement.
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UPDATE: The Fair Lawn woman who found a piece of string in a disturbing shape outside her home said it belonged to a utility company and wasn’t a noose.
Police and firefighters “were able to locate a piece of string in the utility wires that matched [it],” Kelli McCloud’s said Monday. “Apparently, some moron with a utility company did it and failed to remove the rope.
Authorities were still trying to determine exactly who that was and what company the person works for.
A former Optimum executive told Daily Voice that telecommunication companies use that kind of rope to pull the new fiber lines in the entire footprint.
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.
Marcus Solis has more on a disturbing find in Westchester where messages of hate have been found on stickers placed around the county. It s really upsetting to see - we have a very diverse town here in Fair Lawn, and I do believe there are some people who don t like that, you know, they don t like the diversity and they don t like the fact that we celebrate diversity, Peluso said, and sorry to them - this is their community, because we re proud of who we are, and we re proud of where we re going today.
Peluso said at the time that some may not embrace diversity, and that mindset needs to stop.