{"id":207541,"date":"2026-04-23T19:13:38","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T19:13:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/207541\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T19:13:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T19:13:38","slug":"alleged-vandal-sought-for-spray-painting-pagan-on-statue-outside-queens-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/207541\/","title":{"rendered":"Alleged vandal sought for spray painting &#8216;pagan&#8217; on statue outside Queens church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (1010 WINS) \u2014 Police released photos of a suspect on Thursday who is wanted in connection with the defacing of a statue outside a Catholic church in Queens last month.<\/p>\n<p>It happened at about 6:30 a.m. on Saturday, March 21, outside St. Rita&#8217;s Roman Catholic Church on 11th Street in Long Island City.<\/p>\n<p>The vandal used spray paint on a statue of Saint Francis, writing the word &#8220;pagan,&#8221; before fleeing the scene, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Due to the use of anti-religious language, this incident is being investigated by the NYPD&#8217;s Hate Crime Task Force.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (1010 WINS) \u2014 Police released photos of a suspect on Thursday who is wanted in connection&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":207542,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4840,15582,9,24,63,122,124,123,5614],"class_list":["post-207541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-catholic-church","tag-hate-crime","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-vandalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207541","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=207541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}