{"id":230907,"date":"2026-05-14T02:08:40","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T02:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/230907\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T02:08:40","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T02:08:40","slug":"man-pleads-guilty-to-ramming-chabad-hq-in-brooklyn-with-car-faces-up-to-3-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/230907\/","title":{"rendered":"Man pleads guilty to ramming Chabad HQ in Brooklyn with car, faces up to 3 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man accused of repeatedly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2026\/01\/30\/man-rammed-car-chabad-headquarters-brooklyn-hoped-convert-judaism-family-police\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ramming his car<\/a> into Chabad-Lubavitch World Headquarters in Brooklyn pleaded guilty to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2026\/03\/02\/man-who-rammed-car-into-brooklyn-chabad-headquarters-arrested-on-federal-charges\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">damaging religious property<\/a> in federal court on Wednesday, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Dan Sohail, 36, faces a maximum of three years in prison after admitting to the bizarre Jan. 28 Crown Heights attack, but is expected to receive less than six months behind bars due to his lack of any prior criminal history. His sentencing has not yet been scheduled.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy pleading guilty today, the defendant admitted that he intentionally damaged the Chabad-Lubavitch World Headquarters, a globally significant Jewish religious institution, by repeatedly crashing his vehicle into the building\u2019s entrance,\u201d said U.S. Attorney Joseph Nocella.<\/p>\n<p>An attorney for Sohail did not immediately respond to messages seeking comment.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Dan Sohail allegedly slammed his car into the entrance of the\u00a0Chabad World Headquarters in Brooklyn on Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2026. (Kerry Burke \/ New York Daily News)\" width=\"2400\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_3236.jpeg\" data-attachment-id=\"8685698\" \/>Dan Sohail pleaded guilty to slamming his car into the entrance of Chabad World Headquarters in Brooklyn on Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2026. (Kerry Burke \/ New York Daily New<\/p>\n<p>Sohail was arrested Jan. 28 for repeatedly ramming a side entrance of Chabad\u2019s Eastern Parkway headquarters in Crown Heights with his Honda sedan.<\/p>\n<p>Video posted online by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DUE9V9cDJBh\/?igsh=MWRwdHRjN3dld2d4eQ==\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kol Haolam News<\/a> shows the Honda backing up and then driving into the pair of double doors, knocking one door off its hinges.<\/p>\n<p>When the driver finally emerges from the vehicle he can be heard shouting, \u201cI f\u2014ing slipped, you a\u2013hole!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Before ramming the Chabad headquarters, Sohail traveled to a synagogue in Brunswick, N.J., seeking to convert to Judaism. But congregants called police after he started yelling outside the house of worship.<\/p>\n<p>Police didn\u2019t arrest Sohail then, but recommended he get mental health counseling, sources said.<\/p>\n<p>Sohail had visited the Chabad movement\u2019s international headquarters in Crown Heights at least once before and was recorded dancing with congregants there, sources said.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to pleading guilty, Sohail <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2026\/03\/13\/man-who-rammed-car-into-brooklyn-chabad-headquarters-skips-court-after-mdc-altercation\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">missed at least three scheduled court hearings<\/a> at Brooklyn Federal Court, complaining about an altercation with a fellow detainee while being held at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man accused of repeatedly ramming his car into Chabad-Lubavitch World Headquarters in Brooklyn pleaded guilty to damaging&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117880,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,262,263,266,85,267,9,24,264,12,63,261,265],"class_list":["post-230907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-city","tag-county","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-county","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-crime","tag-sub-county-region"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230907","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=230907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}