A suspect is in custody after chucking Molotov cocktails at two religious buildings in Queens late Wednesday night, according to police.<\/p>\n
The 36-year-old man allegedly hurled a firebomb at the front door of the Iglesia Bautista El Mesias church on 75th Street in Ozone Park, which exploded and caused a small fire just before midnight, police said.<\/p>\n
He then walked less than a mile to Kingdom Hall of Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses on 78th Street in Woodhaven and threw another Molotov cocktail at the building\u2019s front door, which again smashed and sparked a blaze.<\/p>\n
The firebombs were hurled at two nearby religious buildings in Queens late Wednesday night. Kevin C. Downs for NY Post<\/p>\n
Police recovered two additional Molotov cocktails from the suspect\u2019s bag, sources said. Kevin C. Downs for NY Post<\/p>\n
Police said no damages or injuries were reported in both incidents. Kevin C. Downs for NY Post<\/p>\n
FDNY doused the flames at both locations, and no serious damage or injuries were reported, cops said.<\/p>\n
The 36-year-old suspect was located by police \u2014 who found two additional Molotov cocktails in his bag, police sources said.<\/p>\n
Investigators believe the man may be tied to multiple similar incidents, sources said.<\/p>\n
He was taken into custody and charges are pending, according to police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A suspect is in custody after chucking Molotov cocktails at two religious buildings in Queens late Wednesday night,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":291316,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[3307,303,544,57,68949,9,24,63,122,124,123,58],"class_list":["post-291315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-churches","tag-crime","tag-fires","tag-metro","tag-molotov-cocktail","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291315","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=291315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}