Man gets 6-month sentence for ramming car into Jewish group’s NY world headquarters
Dan Sohail must serve seven more days and pay $19,010 after admitting he rammed his car into the synagogue entrance.
- On Wednesday, Dan Sohail was sentenced in federal court to time served plus seven days for intentionally damaging the Chabad-Lubavitch global headquarters in Crown Heights earlier this year.
- Sohail, 36, drove his 2012 Honda Accord into the Eastern Parkway side entrance on Jan. 28 during a yahrtzeit gathering, later citing mental health challenges and icy conditions.
- Driving into the building five times caused significant damage, though no one was injured among dozens inside. District Judge Eric Vitaliano ordered $19,010 in restitution for repairs.
- Federal prosecutors sought a 14-month sentence arguing the act was a hate crime, but Judge Vitaliano rejected that characterization after reviewing psychiatric reports on Sohail's mental health struggles.
- Prosecutors noted that 80 of 146 hate crime incidents in New York City this year targeted Jewish institutions, while defense attorney Mia Eisner-Grynberg called the act an "irrational cry for help.
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Man gets 6-month sentence for ramming car into Jewish group’s N.Y. world headquarters
A man was sentenced Wednesday to six months and a week behind bars for ramming his car into the Chabad Lubavitch world headquarters, the Jewish institution in New York where his lawyer said he'd been trying to win acceptance as he struggled with psychological issues.
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Man gets 6-month sentence for ramming car into Jewish group's NY world headquarters
A man has been sentenced to just over six months behind bars for ramming his car into the world headquarters of the Jewish group Chabad Lubavitch in New York City.
New Jersey Man Sentenced for Ramming Chabad Headquarters in Crown Heights
BROOKLYN, N.Y. (VINnews)-A New Jersey man was sentenced Wednesday in federal court to time served plus seven days after pleading guilty to intentionally damaging the Chabad-Lubavitch world headquarters at 770 Eastern Parkway in Crown Heights. Dan Sohail, 36, of Carteret, pleaded guilty in May to one count of intentionally damaging religious property. He has spent […]
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