{"id":324288,"date":"2026-08-18T20:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T20:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/324288\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T20:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T20:00:08","slug":"man-accused-of-attacking-duo-at-new-york-synagogue-charged-with-federal-hate-crimes-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/324288\/","title":{"rendered":"Man accused of attacking duo at New York synagogue charged with federal hate crimes | New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">The man <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/aug\/15\/hate-crime-charges-new-york-synagogue-assault\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">accused<\/a> of attacking a woman and security guard at a New York City synagogue during Shabbat services Friday has been charged with hate crimes in Manhattan federal court, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Larry Montes, who is already facing state-level hate crime charges, allegedly struck a 63-year-old woman as security was trying to boot him from Central Synagogue. He allegedly spat at, and head-butted, a security team member and damaged synagogue property, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Montes is charged federally with two counts of committing hate crimes and one count of damage to religious property resulting in bodily injury, according to Manhattan federal prosecutors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">The woman suffered a cut on her lip as well as a forearm injury. A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/new-york\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York<\/a> police department sergeant assigned to Central Synagogue intervened right away and arrested Montes, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">The incident took place after 6pm as Shabbat services were getting started.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Montes\u2019s alleged attack was visible on a livestream of the services. The stream showed a man yelling as a security guard tried to restrain him and take him out of the synagogue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">More details soon \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The man accused of attacking a woman and security guard at a New York City synagogue during Shabbat&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324289,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10],"class_list":["post-324288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324288","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=324288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}