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Holy Heart High School principal hopes bed bug scare was …

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One bed bug was discovered on a student's sweater at Holy Heart High School Monday, prompting the school to call in sniffer dogs to search the area.

A teacher spotted the single bed bug on a student's sweater when he took off his jacket at the start of the school day.

Staff immediately notified the Department of Health and Community Services and Eastern Health, and pest control workers were sent to the St. John's high school.

"They have sniffer dogs that they use to comb the area where the student was present and thebelongingsofany otherstudent who was in the room at the time," principal Sheldon Barry said.

Pest control workers gave the school the all-clearafter a 20-minute search.

However, Barry said there will be a followup to ensure it was just the lone bug that got in the school. Bed bugsusually hideon clothing, beds and other furniture,

"We'd just check the clothing of the student;usually it's in the seams of the sweater or a pair of jeans," Barry said.

"After a day or so if there's no other insects found, then everything is presumed fine and we just continue as normal from there."

The school also brought in extra cleaners Monday night as a precaution.

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Exterminator accused of using banned chemical to treat bed bugs penalized $70,000

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BURLINGTON, Vt. An exterminator who authorities say used a banned pesticide in treating a Vermont couple's home for bed bugs will pay a $70,000 penalty and surrender his pesticide license in a settlement with the state.

Last year, Neil and Patricia Whitney of Rutland reached a $450,000 settlement with the state agency that hired the exterminator, Cary Buck of North Clarendon, who runs AAA Accredited Pest Control Corp. The couple said their home was made uninhabitable after it was sprayed with the federally banned pesticide, chlorpyrifos in 2012.

Buck denied using chlorpyrifos; officials said they found overwhelming evidence he had used it. His license was suspended in 2013.

Under the settlement, Buck won't seek employment with any other pesticide application company and will lawfully dispose of all pesticides and equipment he has.

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Somerville boarding home with bed bugs not allowed to take new tenants

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Rajinder Jassil's rooming home is on West End Avenue in Somerville.Google Maps

SOMERVILLE The owner of a rooming home on West End Avenue that reportedly has had problems with bed bugs for five years was fined by the state and is barred from taking new tenants until conditions improve.

According to a report from myCentralJersey.com, residents at Rajinder Jassil's West End property have reported bed-bug infestations for five years. The report said Jassil also owns two other properties in New Brunswick that have similar problems.

Jassil, a Branchburg resident, was fined $1,000 by the New Jersey Department of Community Affairs, which regulates rooming homes in the state, after failing a second inspection at his Somerville property, DCA communications manager Emike Omogbai told NJ Advance Media. The department also imposed an admission curtailment order on the property, prohibiting Jassil from accepting new tenants "until further notice."

In a rooming home, tenants occupy single-room living spaces but share kitchens, bathrooms and living areas. The state first inspected the two-story West End property on Dec. 5, 2014, according to Omogbai. Inspectors found bed bug activity, ceiling leaks, damaged ceiling tiles, dirty walls, trash pile-ups and dirty dishes in rooms, Omogbai said.

After the residence was re-evaluated on Feb. 20, inspectors found that Jasssil treated the property for bed bugs, but failed to provide certification proving the house was inspected after 60 days and no evidence of activity was found, Omogbai said.

The inspection also found that Jassil "failed to conduct routine housekeeping of harborage areas i.e. vacuuming, washing baseboards/walls etc.," Omogbai said.

He did, however, check new residents for possible bed bug infestation and obtain a contract with a licensed pesticide applicator to maintain routine scheduled treatments, according to Omogbai.

Reached by phone Tuesday, Jassil said he is in the process of getting the place up to standards by the time the state comes back in late March.

"We are working on it," he said. "We are working 24 hours to fix whatever we have to do. I hope everything will be okay."

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