{"id":260637,"date":"2026-08-06T22:44:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T22:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/260637\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T22:44:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T22:44:07","slug":"man-faces-civil-rights-charge-in-connection-with-alleged-arson-at-northeast-philly-mosque","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/260637\/","title":{"rendered":"Man faces civil rights charge in connection with alleged arson at Northeast Philly mosque"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 A man already charged with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.audacy.com\/kywnewsradio\/news\/local\/northeast-philly-mosque-damaged-apparent-arson-attack\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">setting a Northeast Philadelphia mosque on fire last month<\/a> now faces a civil rights charge in connection with the alleged arson.<\/p>\n<p>The United States Attorney\u2019s Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania is charging 60-year-old Vincent Lang with two more crimes in addition to his arson charge, including damaging religious property.<\/p>\n<p>The new indictment alleges that Lang targeted the Northeast Philadelphia Islamic Center on Tyson Avenue because it was a mosque.<\/p>\n<p>Lang was arrested in connection with the fire on July 16 and charged with arson. The fire was set at the mosque around 2 a.m. on July 5. The Philadelphia chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations released surveillance footage from that morning showing a masked man in all black clothing throw an incendiary device through the mosque\u2019s entryway before fleeing.<\/p>\n<p>CAIR offered a $2,500 reward for any information leading to an arrest.<\/p>\n<p>In the weeks since, a GoFundMe has raised more than $26,000 to help the mosque with repairs.<\/p>\n<p>Lang faces up to 40 years in prison if he\u2019s found guilty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 A man already charged with setting a Northeast Philadelphia mosque on fire last month&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":260638,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[36,422,87309,102195,2327,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-260637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-arson","tag-fire","tag-islamic-center","tag-mosque","tag-northeast-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}