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Jersey Terror Police On the Move

category north america / mexico | repression / prisoners | other libertarian press author Tuesday July 26, 2005 06:37author by Oread Daily Report this post to the editors

Terror cops arrest animal rights supporter, raid apartment...

Jersey Terror Police On the Move - Oread Daily

The New Jersey State Police Counter-Terrorism Bureau decked out in
bulletproof vests and armed with assault rifles descended on a home
in Jersey the other day without a search warrant and ransacked the
home of some local residents of Exxex County.

You probably didn't hear about it.

Ted Nebus was the lucky guy whose apartment was torn asunder, and
whose computer, containing his master's thesis on labor relations,
was carted off. The counter terror guys also seized several signs
advocating animal rights.

According to the Home News Tribune, police said the raid was linked
to an investigation into, get this, criminal mischief and
trespassing.

It turns out that Nebus' wife, Janice Angelillo, was already in
custody. She had been picked up by the NJ State Police for allegedly
spray-painting (terrorism?). Her bail has been set at $15,000 cash.

Janice is the treasurer of the Central New Jersey Industrial Workers
of the World and an avid animal rights activist.

Nebus' neighbor, Tom Howard, was puzzled by the action Saturday
night. "It's like if you saw one of those hyped-up movies, except
you replace the Hollywood stereotype of the evil terrorist with the
people who actually live there," Howard said. "And it's a woman who
is a school teacher, who's an art teacher at a school who weighs 100
pounds soaking wet, and her husband, who is a grad student studying
labor relations."

"They're pacifists," Howard said. "They protest for peace." He said
he was not particularly aware of the couple's animal-rights
activities, but said Angelillo is "very interested in treating
animals humanely." He added, "The couple adopted five stray
cats...one of them, Acadia, has been missing since the incident."

The search warrant, signed several hours after Nebus and several
others were detained, covered computer-related material and paper
towels, Howard said, adding that the police said Angelillo had
allegedly spray-painted.

"For allegedly spray-painting, they sent a SWAT team," Howard said.

Dan O'Donnell, the building's owner said he has seen people with
protest signs entering and leaving the house, but there's never been
any trouble with the residents.

Capt. Steve Serrao of the counter-terrorism bureau said at the scene
that police were unable to release details of the investigation. The
Highland Park, New Jersey Police Department assisted the state
police in the operation. A K-9 unit also was on the scene.

Next door neighbor Howard said he understands the need to respond to
threats, but said he believes the reaction he saw to an
investigation of criminal mischief and trespassing seemed overdone.

"It was one of those things where you will look at things and you'll
read about things going on, and then one day, you're going to a
barbecue and the next thing you know, you've got an assault rifle
pointed at you," he said. Sources: Rise Up, Home News Tribune (New
Jersey), and a couple of e-mails


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