{"id":292766,"date":"2026-07-10T22:07:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T22:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/292766\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T22:07:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T22:07:11","slug":"man-charged-with-molotov-attacks-in-queens-brooklyn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/292766\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged with Molotov attacks in Queens, Brooklyn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CITYWIDE \u2013 A MAN CHARGED on Wednesday for allegedly throwing Molotov cocktails at two churches in Queens allegedly also attacked a store in Cypress Hills the same way last month, <a href=\"https:\/\/gothamist.com\/news\/mask-wearing-man-facing-federal-charges-for-molotov-cocktail-attacks-in-brooklyn-queens\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Gothamist reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Yogesh Sayrange, 36, is facing federal charges for the Cypress Hills incident, which took place on June 25. Sayrange is accused of setting a glass bottle filled with fuel and debris on fire and then throwing it into a smoke shop, where it ignited and caused significant damage. Prosecutors alleged he carried out the attack while wearing a \u201cGuy Fawkes\u201d-style mask, but was captured on surveillance footage removing it afterwards.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Charges have not yet been filed in the attacks on the Queens churches, which caused less damage, but sources said Sayrange will likely be federally charged for those as well.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2730\u2730\u2730<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> <a style=\"font-size: inherit; background-color: #fefefe;\" href=\"https:\/\/brooklyneagle.com\/whats-news-breaking\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wnb-read-more aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/read-more-wnb-shad-1024x341.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"341\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CITYWIDE \u2013 A MAN CHARGED on Wednesday for allegedly throwing Molotov cocktails at two churches in Queens allegedly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55437,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[3094,3302,14768,303,9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-292766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-arson","tag-breaking","tag-courts-and-law","tag-crime","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\/292766","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=292766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}