{"id":260780,"date":"2026-08-07T04:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T04:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/260780\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T04:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T04:02:09","slug":"philly-man-indicted-on-civil-rights-charge-following-mosque-arson-nbc10-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/260780\/","title":{"rendered":"Philly man indicted on civil rights charge following mosque arson \u2013 NBC10 Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Philadelphia man arrested in connection to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcphiladelphia.com\/news\/local\/reward-offered-after-northeast-philly-mosque-damaged-in-apparent-arson-attack\/4429325\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.nbcphiladelphia.com\/news\/local\/reward-offered-after-northeast-philly-mosque-damaged-in-apparent-arson-attack\/4429325\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">an arson at an Islamic center in Northeast Philly<\/a> has been indicted on a civil rights charge, according to the Department of Justice. <\/p>\n<p>Vincent Lang, 60, was charged with one count of malicious damage by means of fire to a building used in interstate commerce and one count of damage to a religious real property, officials said. <\/p>\n<p>The July 5 fire at the Northeast Philadelphia Islamic Center, located in the 1400 block of Tyson Avenue, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcphiladelphia.com\/news\/local\/suspect-in-philadelphia-mosque-fire-expressed-anti-islamic-views-before-attack-investigators-say\/4434260\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.nbcphiladelphia.com\/news\/local\/suspect-in-philadelphia-mosque-fire-expressed-anti-islamic-views-before-attack-investigators-say\/4434260\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">was targeted in what officials described as an arson attack<\/a>. In the aftermath, officials said, &#8220;a masked individual lit something in a bag and threw it&#8221; inside the building.<\/p>\n<p>No one was injured, but officials said &#8220;significant damage&#8221; was done to the building. A quick-thinking passerby helped prevent the fire from spreading, mosque leadership said.<\/p>\n<p>Video footage gathered from several surveillance cameras on the property showed a man \u201cigniting a suspected improvised incendiary device,\u201d throwing it inside the building, and then leaving, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Lang was taken into custody on Thursday, July 16 and has been held since. <\/p>\n<p>If convicted, Lang could serve between five to 40 years in prison. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Philadelphia man arrested in connection to an arson at an Islamic center in Northeast Philly has been&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":260781,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[69,71,70],"class_list":["post-260780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260780","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=260780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}