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A tip led officers on Monday to an alleged chop shop hidden inside an Essex County business, police said. The tipster told police shortly after 2:30 a.m. that stolen cars were being housed and disassembled at Veracity Stone Fabricators in Fairfield and that the evidence of the alleged illegal activity would be removed before 6 a.m., according to a release from the Fairfield Police Department. The caller also gave police photos of cars being taken apart at the business, which is used to take stone materials and craft them into countertops and other furnishings for home and business installation…

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