{"id":179217,"date":"2026-03-29T23:59:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T23:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/179217\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T23:59:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T23:59:08","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-suspect-wanted-for-smearing-feces-on-brooklyn-heights-mosque","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/179217\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Suspect wanted for smearing feces on Brooklyn Heights mosque"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police are searching for a man who they say of targeted a mosque in an alleged hate crime in Brooklyn Heights.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators say the incident happened March 9 at the Islamic Mission of America on State Street. According to police, the suspect threw pages of the Quran onto the front steps of the mosque, then walked away.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities say the man returned a short time later and smeared what appeared to be feces on the mosque\u2019s front door before leaving the area.<\/p>\n<p>The incident comes as hate crimes across New York City are on the rise. NYPD data shows hate crimes increased 152% in January compared to the same time last year.<\/p>\n<p>Police are asking anyone who recognizes the suspect to call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are searching for a man who they say of targeted a mosque in an alleged hate crime&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":179218,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,6748,99,15582,745,70268,9,24,15307,63,103,6399,1954],"class_list":{"0":"post-179217","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-brooklyn","9":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","10":"tag-brooklyn-heights","11":"tag-brooklyn-news","12":"tag-hate-crime","13":"tag-investigation","14":"tag-mosque","15":"tag-new-york","16":"tag-new-york-city","17":"tag-new-york-crime-stoppers","18":"tag-nyc","19":"tag-nypd","20":"tag-police-investigation","21":"tag-surveillance-video"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}