{"id":183165,"date":"2026-04-02T05:01:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T05:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/183165\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T05:01:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T05:01:08","slug":"nypd-hunts-suspect-who-robbed-queens-church-and-desecrated-its-holy-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/183165\/","title":{"rendered":"NYPD hunts suspect who robbed Queens church and desecrated its holy water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NYPD is asking the public to help identify a lowlife who stole donations from a <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/tag\/queens\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Queens<\/a> church and desecrated its holy water over the weekend in what cops are investigating as a <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/tag\/hate-crimes\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">possible hate crime<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The psycho strolled into St. Anastasia Catholic Church in Douglaston at around 11:45 a.m. Saturday and\u00a0poured a drink in the baptismal font \u2013 a dedicated, often pedestal-mounted receptacle containing consecrated water \u2014 police said. <\/p>\n<p>The shameless fiend then took an undisclosed amount of money from the donation box and removed a cloth from the altar, according to cops. <\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:0.77617801;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38967983\" width=\"458\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/245-street-poured-drink-inside-124875375.jpg\" alt=\"Image of a man wearing a blue hat, light-colored hooded sweatshirt, and black jacket, wanted in connection with an aggravated harassment incident.\" class=\"wp-image-38967983\"  \/>The NYPD is asking the public to help identify this man, who stole donations from a Queens church.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.47976879;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38967981\" width=\"873\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/245-street-st-anastasia-church-124876372.jpg\" alt=\"St. Anastasia Parish Center and Roman Catholic Church building.\" class=\"wp-image-38967981\"  \/>St. Anastasia Catholic Church in Douglaston, Queens. Google maps<\/p>\n<p>He ran off with the cash and cloth and fled to parts unknown.<\/p>\n<p>No injuries were reported from the break-in.<\/p>\n<p>The man was last seen wearing a blue hat, a light-colored sweatshirt, a black jacket, dark-colored pants, dark-colored sneakers, and a bookbag.<\/p>\n<p>The NYPD\u2019s Hate Crime Task Force is investigating.<\/p>\n<p>The department has asked anyone with information about the incident to call its Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the Crime Stoppers website at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/urldefense.com\/v3\/__https:\/\/crimestoppers.nypdonline.org\/__;!!F0Stn7g!FpGtoqB9kSqJ3HxBW8sC2ZOnaDMWzD5zee684nkGfaDiz8cUKmpNZtyc8mY9GNoiwBbPcMR2EtFFXOjMcZjuKKx2$\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">https:\/\/crimestoppers.nypdonline.org\/<\/a>, on X @NYPDTips.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NYPD is asking the public to help identify a lowlife who stole donations from a Queens church&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183166,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[10685,57,9,24,63,103,122,124,123,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-183165","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-queens","8":"tag-hate-crimes","9":"tag-metro","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-nyc","13":"tag-nypd","14":"tag-queens","15":"tag-queens-headlines","16":"tag-queens-news","17":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183165","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=183165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}