A Montclair man has been accused of a hate crime after he allegedly sent blast emails targeting Jewish and Black people to hundreds of residents of an apartment building, authorities said.

Nicholas M. Scarano, 23, faces charges that include ethnic intimidation and terroristic threats for the threatening emails, which were received by residents of the Atrium Palace condominium complex in Fort Lee this week, according to the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office.

The two emails contained explicit and biased language and were sent by someone who had illegally accessed the complex’s online communications system, an investigation launched Thursday revealed.

Detectives with the Cyber Crimes Unit traced the online activity to an internet connection belonging to Scarano, according to a news release

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