By Karen Zautyk
A man arrested in 2008 in Nutley in the alleged sexual assault of a 14-year-old girl is in custody again, this time in connection with a series
of sex crimes in Belleville and Bloomfield, authorities reported.
The suspect, Lee Harris, 26, of Montclair, was being held in the Essex County Jail on $1.1 million bail following his arrest on Aug. 6 in Bloomfield by members of a joint task force comprising officers from the Belleville and Bloomfield police departments and the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office Special Victims Unit.
Authorities said the task force had been organized after two sexual assaults were reported in Bloomfield on June 18 and July 18. Following a similar attempted assault in Belleville on Aug. 4, police from that town joined the
effort, and Harris was nabbed two days later.
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