Astoria -mann charged with repeated attacks in the Catholic Church: there

May 1, 2025 by Bill Parry

A Grand jury in Queens has charged an Astoria man for hate crimes and other indictment for allegedly impossible conception churches at Ditmar's Boulevard in a number of disturbing incidents in the past month, including the desue of a religious statue and an attack on a church.

Jose Rodriguez, 38, from the Shore Boulevard, was charged as hate crimes on Wednesday before the Supreme Court of Queens for burglary, attempted attacks and severe harassment.

“This defendant was charged with crimes and hate crimes

According to the indictment and investigation, Jose Rodriguez, 38, drove a Citi bike from the Shore Boulevard to the Immaculate Conception Church in the 29th Street and at Ditmars Boulevard, at 1 p.m. on April 6, shortly after the end of the Sunday mass. When he arrived, he allegedly shook his hand by Rev. James Hughes before telling the priest that he should “die”.

Rodriguez then entered the church, went to the altar, where a woman had a statue of the child of Jesus, and supposedly put it out of her hands. The statue broke on the floor. He fled out of the scene and rode towards Astoria Park.

Rodriguez lives in the Marine Terrace Apartments north of the park, about a mile from the church.

According to the indictment, Rodriguez returned to the church at around 1 p.m. on April 9th ​​and entered behind the altar. It is said to have taken the tip of a glass water cross and thrown a parishion of a member of the parishion, the prayed. The object smashed the impact and narrowly missed the victim.

According to the incident, Rodriguez allegedly spit on an employee of the church who had picked up officers from the 114th district. He was taken into custody and later arranged by the Hass cremation-Task Force of the NYPD.

The diocese of Brooklyn reported that Rodriguez had previously targeted the church on April 1 when he was seen when he spat in a sacred water script.

“Houses of adoration are protected areas in our communities, and Jose Rodriguez allegedly violated this covenant by deliberately creating chaos in a place of peace,” said Katz. “I would like to thank our partners at the NYPD HATE Crimes Task Force and the 114th district for their quick arrest of this defendant.”

Toni Cimino, judge of the Supreme Court of Queens, ordered Rodriguez to return to court on June 6th. When he was convicted of the upper count, Rodriguez is presented to a potential maximum penalty of seven years in prison.

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