{"id":187424,"date":"2026-04-06T18:41:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T18:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/187424\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T18:41:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T18:41:08","slug":"hate-crime-probe-in-march-church-theft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/187424\/","title":{"rendered":"Hate crime probe in March church theft |"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">The NYPD is asking the public\u2019s assistance in identifying who is the perpetrator of an aggravated harassment incident committed at St. Anastasia\u2019s Roman Catholic Church in Douglaston on March 14.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Police said an unidentified man entered the church, located at 45-50 245 St., and poured a drink into the baptismal font. He then took an undisclosed amount of money from the donation box and removed a cloth from the altar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">He fled on foot. There were no injuries reported, and the case is being investigated by the NYPD\u2019s Hate Crime Task Force.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u00a0The man was last seen wearing a blue hat, light-colored hooded sweatshirt, black jacket, dark colored pants and dark-colored sneakers and was carrying a bookbag.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 1 (800) 577-TIPS (8477) or, for Spanish, 1 (888) 57-PISTA (74782). The public can also submit tips by logging onto <a href=\"http:\/\/nypdcrimestoppers.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">nypdcrimestoppers.com<\/a>, or by texting 274637 (CRIMES) and then entering TIP577, or by going to @nypdtips on X.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">All tips are strictly confidential.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NYPD is asking the public\u2019s assistance in identifying who is the perpetrator of an aggravated harassment incident&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187425,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[22532,22531,9,24,17712,63,122,124,123,22529,22530],"class_list":{"0":"post-187424","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-queens","8":"tag-central","9":"tag-eastern","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-north","13":"tag-nyc","14":"tag-queens","15":"tag-queens-headlines","16":"tag-queens-news","17":"tag-queenswide","18":"tag-south"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187424","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=187424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}