JERSEY CITY AND BEYOND– According to news reports, Jersey City police Monday night arrested the owner of a building in the Jersey City Heights section in connection with a homemade explosive device found earlier that morning inside the building.
The owner of 451 Palisade Ave., Milan Bolich, 54, was arrested and charged with aggravated arson, risking widespread injury and possession of a weapon for unlawful purpose. Bolich allegedly placed a homemade bomb inside Willie Joe’s Pizzeria, located on the ground floor of the building. The bomb, apparently a gas can rigged with a wire placed inside the pizzeria’s front door, was dismantled by the Jersey City Bomb Squad Monday morning after police responded to a call around 6 a.m. about a gas leak and found the homemade device, which was set up to detonate if someone had opened the front door.
According to authorities, the bomb was believed to have been created as the result of a dispute between Bolich and his tenant, the owner of the pizzeria. The arrest came several hours after Bolich and the tenant were both interviewed by police. – RK