{"id":182984,"date":"2026-04-02T01:43:28","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T01:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/182984\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T01:43:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T01:43:28","slug":"man-desecrates-baptismal-font-pilfers-donation-box-at-queens-catholic-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/182984\/","title":{"rendered":"Man desecrates baptismal font, pilfers donation box at Queens catholic church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man desecrated a baptismal font and pilfered the donation box at a catholic church in Queens, cops said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The man dumped his drink in the baptismal font at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sta.nyc\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">St. Anastasia\u2019s Roman Catholic Church<\/a> in Dougalston around 11:45 a.m. on March 14, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>He then swiped an unspecified amount of cash from the donation box at the church, located on 245th St. near Alameda Ave., before nabbing a cloth from the altar and fleeing, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The NYPD released images of the suspect and are asking for the public\u2019s help in tracking him down.<\/p>\n<p>He was last seen wearing a blue hat, a light-colored sweatshirt, a black jacket, a bookbag and dark-colored pants and sneakers.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is asked to call <a href=\"https:\/\/crimestoppers.nypdonline.org\/?AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime Stoppers<\/a> at (800) 577-TIPS. All calls will be kept confidential.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man desecrated a baptismal font and pilfered the donation box at a catholic church in Queens, cops&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":182985,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[262,263,266,85,267,9,24,264,12,63,261,122,124,123,265],"class_list":{"0":"post-182984","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-queens","8":"tag-city","9":"tag-county","10":"tag-crime-and-public-safety","11":"tag-latest-headlines","12":"tag-local-news","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-new-york-county","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-nyc","18":"tag-nyc-crime","19":"tag-queens","20":"tag-queens-headlines","21":"tag-queens-news","22":"tag-sub-county-region"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182984","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=182984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}