Lakewood Police are investigating a possible hate crime after two vehicles were set on fire just after midnight Monday morning (Sunday night) in a predominantly Orthodox jewish neighborhood.

One incident happened on Attaya Road, just off of Miller Road, while the second incident was on Iroquois Place near Seminole Drive – near the Jackson border.

The Lakewood Fire Department were called to extinguish both fires.

Sources tell YWN that both incidents happened within minutes of each other.

Police are taking this matter seriously, and the Ocean County Prosecutors office as well as the Ocean County Fire Marshal have been requested to the scene to investigate.

Around 8 days ago Lakewood was hit with two hate crimes in one night, when a Holocaust memorial in front of a Shul was defaced by hate graffiti, and dozens of vehicles had anti-semitic flyers placed in their windows in a second incident. Police have not yet made any arrests in those incidents.

These troubling hate crimes come on the heels of around two dozens arrests in Lakewood, where people were charged with the misuse of government programs.

If you have any information which can assist police in apprehending the people responsible for any of these incidents, please contact the police.

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