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09.18.16

Separate blast rocks NYC neighborhood, injuries reported. 13A

TERRORISM PROBED IN
SEASIDE BOMB BLAST

EXPLOSIVE IN TRASH

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Law enforcement officers stand with guns ready after an explosive device detonated in a trashcan in Seaside Park on Saturday.

FBI takes the lead in investigation into explosion

along the route of a Marine Corps charity event
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PHOTO COURTESY OF OCEAN COUNTY PROSECUTORS OFFICE

An explosive device discharged in a garbage pail at a

Semper Five charity race in Seaside Park.

SEASIDE PARK - A pipe-bomb-style device detonated in a garbage can at the start of the route of a Marine
Corps charity race Saturday morning, injuring no one,
but sparking a massive law-enforcement response and
suspicions of terrorism.
The FBI said it was unaware of any known threat
to public safety, in an early evening press conference
that lasted about two minutes. Brad Cohen, the Special
Agent in Charge of the Newark FBI Office, said the

Chilly welcome as SCHI camp

pedals into Pennsylvania town
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DINGMAN, PENNSYLVANIA - Residents in this rural community in the foothills of the Poconos were
caught off guard July 14 when scores of cyclists from
Lakewood, New Jersey, rolled into town.
Wearing matching black and green cycling outfits,
the riders wended their way to the old Mount Haven Resort, where a crowd of people, many of them Orthodox
Jews who had made the two-hour drive from Ocean
County, were waiting to cheer them on.
For the riders and their supporters, it was a joyous
occasion.
To begin with, it marked the end of an arduous, 120-

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mile bike ride that had begun in Lakewood that morning

at a private school for students with multiple disabilities, the School for Children with Hidden Intelligence,
or SCHI for short. Called the SCHI Challenge, the event
raised more than $250,000 in donations and pledges toward the construction of a new, state-of-the-art gymnasium on the schools expansive Oak Street campus.
The gathering was also a celebration of the schools
recent $1.5 million purchase of Mount Haven, a weathered, 160-acre compound dotted with rustic cabins and
other dated amenities, where the the schools annual
summer camp for special-needs kids, Camp SCHI, had
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agencys Joint Terrorism Task Force was taking the

lead in the investigation into the explosion. He said the
agency was working to make sure there was no stone
left unturned in the probe.
Multiple agencies are investigating the incident and
whether the motive was terror, said Al Della Fave,
spokesman for the Ocean County Prosecutors Office.
You would have to assume that at a military-type
event, the U.S. Marines, a device is placed along the
route of a charity event, it would be hard to think it
would be anything else, Della Fave said.
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