NEW YORK CITY A man who identifies as an “incel” claimed he had a bomb and then threatened to kill diners for Allah, but ended up receiving no jail time for his tasteless prank. Malik Sanchez, 20, was sentenced on April 13 for claiming he had a bomb and telling two women at a| USSA News
Malik Sanchez told two women in New York City he was going to kill them. Judge Colleen McMahon said his action was “that of a sicko” but gave him no jail time.
Malik Sanchez proudly promoted himself as an incel online shorthand for “involuntarily celibate” and made a name for himself in a toxic internet subculture that encourages vengeance against women who reject troubled men.
(YouTube/Smooth Sanchez IRL)
It was all a big joke, you see, and really, what’s funnier than a jihad bombing? Back in February, a young man named Malik Sanchez, who refers to himself by the spectacular misnomer of “Smooth Sanchez,” published a nearly three-and-a-half-hour-long video on his YouTube channel, which has 5,400 subscribers, featuring himself walking along the streets of New York City and yelling abuse at passersby, mostly young women. In the course of things, he shouted at diners in a restaurant that he was going to blow them up for Allah. The NYPD wasn’t laughing: Sanchez has just been arrested.
Incel teen held without bail on federal bomb threat charge By LARRY NEUMEISTER, AP
NEW YORK (AP) A teenager who prosecutors say touts himself as subscribing to an online subculture that has been linked to violent attacks was arrested Wednesday on a bomb threat charge.
Nineteen-year-old Malik Sanchez, known online as “Smooth Sanchez,” was arrested on a charge of conveying false and misleading information and hoaxes after he allegedly made a hoax threat in February to detonate a bomb at a restaurant in Manhattan’s Flatiron neighborhood. He was ordered held without bail.
In a criminal complaint in Manhattan federal court, investigators said Sanchez on Feb. 13 posted a video online showing him approaching two women seated outside the restaurant and telling them that a bomb would go off in two minutes.