{"id":322039,"date":"2026-08-15T12:56:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T12:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/322039\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T12:56:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T12:56:10","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-bronx-man-arrested-in-midtown-synagogue-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/322039\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Bronx Man Arrested In Midtown Synagogue Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A Bronx man was arrested Friday after a hate crime incident at a Midtown synagogue that left two people injured, according to the NYPD. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police responded to a 911 call at 6:10 p.m. for a disturbance at a synagogue located at 652 Lexington Ave. in Midtown.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Larry Montes, 46, of Grand Concourse, became disruptive during a religious service and was being escorted out by security.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">As security attempted to remove him, police said Montes struck a 63-year-old woman, causing a small laceration to her lip and right forearm.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police say he also spit on and head-butted a 65-year-old male security guard.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Montes was taken into custody and faces multiple charges, including assault as a hate crime, assault, criminal mischief as a hate crime, disruption of a religious service, criminal trespass as a hate crime, aggravated harassment and harassment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Bronx man was arrested Friday after a hate crime incident at a Midtown synagogue that left two&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322038,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-322039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322039","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=322039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}