{"id":291463,"date":"2026-07-09T15:53:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T15:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/291463\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T15:53:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T15:53:07","slug":"man-arrested-for-allegedly-throwing-molotov-cocktails-at-queens-houses-of-worship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/291463\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested for allegedly throwing Molotov cocktails at Queens houses of worship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(NEW YORK) \u2014 A man was arrested after he allegedly threw Molotov cocktails at two different houses of worship and another building in Queens Wednesday night, the New York City Police Department said.<\/p>\n<p>Officers responded to a 911 call at Iglesia Bautista El Mesias Church in Ozone Park around 11:35 p.m. about a man allegedly throwing the incendiary device, according to the NYPD.<\/p>\n<p>Surveillance footage showed the suspect lighting the Molotov cocktail and then throwing it at the church before walking away after it exploded on the ground, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The New York City Fire Department put out the fire. No one was hurt and there was no significant damage to the building, according to the police.<\/p>\n<p>Alex Garcia, the pastor of the church, told ABC News\u2019 New York City affiliate\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/abc7ny.com\/post\/man-arrested-throwing-molotov-cocktails-2-queens-religious-buildings-police-say\/19474295\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">WABC\u00a0<\/a>that the house of worship has been around for 20 years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have no enemies, so I don\u2019t know where this is coming from,\u201d he told the station.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect, who police only identified as a 36-year-old man, then allegedly traveled a mile north to Kingdom Hall of Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses and allegedly lit and threw another Molotov cocktail at the house of worship, according to investigators.<\/p>\n<p>There were no reported damage or injuries at that location, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect was arrested by police later in the night, according to the NYPD.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators discovered that he allegedly threw another Molotov cocktail at a third location in the area, according to the NYPD. That building also sustained no damage, and there were no injuries, investigators said.<\/p>\n<p>Police alleged that the suspect had a bag with two other Molotov cocktails inside at the time of his arrest.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect\u2019s charges and arraignment were pending as of Thursday morning, police said. The investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(NEW YORK) \u2014 A man was arrested after he allegedly threw Molotov cocktails at two different houses of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":291464,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-291463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291463","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=291463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}