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Reported Verbal Dispute Ends in Slashing of Sanitation Technician in Jersey City

Jersey City

Police are investigating a reported dispute that had one person injured after being slashed in Jersey City.

According to initial reports, police were called to an address on Terrace Avenue for reports of a dispute at around 5:30 a.m.

Units arrived at the scene where they found the victim who reported that a verbal dispute occurred between him and his partner who are both sanitation technicians for an unknown company.

During the heated argument, the suspect reportedly slashed the victim with an unknown object before leaving the scene in the sanitation truck reports said.

The truck is reportedly yellow and white with the numbers 158 on it.

Authorities believe that the suspect is a Newark resident.

It is unclear where the slashing occurred.

Police are investigating.

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