Posted on 11/01/2002 6:54:08 AM PST by LurkedLongEnough
(Jersey City-WABC, November 1, 2002) — There is a murder mystery for police in Jersey City. Firefighters putting out a car fire made a gruesome discovery on Friday morning. Two bodies were found in a burned out car in Jersey City. The Hudson County Prosecutors office is investigating this incident along with the Jersey City police.
It is a crime that rarely eludes firefighters but this morning, police were aiding them. This happened in the parking lot of a Laid law School Bus Company. This morning, employees arrived at work surprised that a murder investigation was underway.
It started around 1:30 this morning when firefighters were called to the industrial part of Jersey City to put out a car fire. It was there that they discovered a Mitsubishi Montero fully engulfed in flames. In the back seat, firefighters discovered two badly, burned bodies. One of the bodies was partially dismembered. The legs were cut off of that body.
The Hudson County Prosecutors office is investigating this incident along with the Jersey City police. As stated before, workers were quite shocked to find out what happened this morning.
Henry Patterson, Maintenance Worker: "Usually when I am here early in the morning, I make my rounds all around the area because I don't want any surprises when I open up the doors."
Normally, there is a gate that seals off the lot. But a month ago, a truck backed up into it and broke the gate. It is no longer functioning. That may have given someone the opportunity to dispose of this car in a location that is right across the street from the Hudson County Sheriff's Department.
It's obviously a double suicide - at least according to Fahmy Malak.
Millions of dollars at stake.......
Wow, that's a lot more than I would have ever guessed. And yet they still can't put in seatbelts nor can they find a strong enough bus driver to control the entire bus full of kids.
Sorrowfully signed,
Vinny, Carmine, Guido, and Tony "Da Blade"
I started to say that I read somewhere not to long ago about a Mitsubishi catching on fire for no apparent reason and I was going to point out maybe they have a problem. Then I read this article further and see one of the bodies was dismembered. YUK!
I guess it wasn't a problem with the Mitsubishi this time.
See "License to Defraud" (Free Republic post)
Excerpt: "In the last 16 months, at least 13 employees from eight DMV offices - East Orange, Rahway, Newark, North Bergen, Wayne Route 46, Camden, Trenton, and Lodi - have been arrested for alleged crimes involving driver's license fraud."
Kathleen Smith bump.
Three Men Arrested in Case of Burned Bodies
(1010 WINS)-Three men were charged with the murder of two people found inside a burned sport utility vehicle Friday.
At least one of the victims was alive when the vehicle was set ablaze in a school bus parking lot in a remote industrial area, the Hudson County prosecutor's office said.
The suspects, who were arrested on Sunday, are Tariq Maqbool, 25, of Old Bridge and Zaid Tariq, 20, and Paul Ried, 36, both of Sayreville, said Debra Simon, an assistant Hudson County prosecutor.
Maqpool and Tariq are natives of Pakistan, and bail was set for all three defendants at $5 million on Monday by state Superior Court Judge Francis Schultz. All three men are being held in the Hudson County Correctional Center on felony murder charges.
[snip]None of the men had listed phone numbers.
The bodies of the victims were burned beyond recognition in the 1 a.m. fire.
Even so, Simon said investigators are reasonably certain of the victims' identities, based on interviews with the vehicle owner's family in Pennsylvania. The family was located using the vehicle identification number on the Mitsubishi Montero.
Simon said the names of the victims, both men, are being withheld pending positive identification using dental records.
The victims ran a phone card business in Pennsylvania, and Ried and Maqbool run a similar business in Sayreville, Preferred Wireless. A recorded message at Preferred said the company's voice mail box was full and no message could be left.
Based on interviews with family members, Simon said the two victims had driven the Mitsubishi to Sayreville on Halloween to buy $300,000 worth of prepaid phone calling cards from two of their alleged assailants. Some of the money has been recovered, Simon said.
Simon said a dispute erupted at the Sayreville business between the two victims and the three defendants plus one other man who was not identified and was at large Monday. The case is still under investigation, and additional arrests are possible, Simon said.
A shot was fired during the dispute, although no one was believed to have been hit, Simon said.
The victims were bound and driven to Jersey City, where the Mitsubishi was set ablaze with them inside.
Simon said the case will be presented to a grand jury.
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