NYC officials discuss efforts on stopping potential attack against synagogues

Mayor Eric Adams, Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell, the FBI and other agencies gathered at City Hall Monday to detail the multi-agency effort to stop a potential domestic act of terrorism on the Jewish community.

Nov 21, 2022, 11:07 AM

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Mayor Eric Adams, Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell, the FBI and other agencies gathered at City Hall Monday to detail the multi-agency effort to stop a potential domestic act of terrorism on the Jewish community.
On Friday evening, the FBI and joint terrorism task force received information that there was a threat on an unidentified synagogue after the suspects allegedly made anti-Semitic and threatening posts on social media.
Those efforts led police in arresting two people at Penn Station on Saturday- suspects Christopher Brown from Aquebogue, New York and Matthew Mara from Manhattan.
Authorities seized a semi-automatic gun, a 30-round magazine, a laser light, a Nazi arm band and a black ski mask.
Brown and Mara are facing state charges of making a terroristic threat and criminal possession of a weapon, according to authorities.