(NEW YORK) A man was arrested Saturday for allegedly making threats against the New York City Jewish community, authorities said. The 21-year-old man from Suffolk County, New York, made a series of increasingly concerning statements about attacking a synagogue in New York City, according to police sources. The threat, which was uncovered Friday by NYPD
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(NEW YORK) A man was arrested Saturday for allegedly making threats against the New York City Jewish community, authorities said. The 21-year-old man from Su
Oliver Helbig/Getty Images/Stock(NEW YORK) A man was arrested Saturday for allegedly making threats against the New York City Jewish community, authorities said. The 21-year-old man from Suffolk County, New York, made a series of increasingly concerning statements about attacking a synagogue in New York City, according to police sources. The threat, which was uncovered Friday by NYPD counterterrorism officers and FBI agents, did not involve a specific synagogue, police said. An intelligence alert was issued that included a photo of the man, identified as Christopher Brown, and stated that the individual had allegedly "made recent threats to unknown Jewish Synagogues in the New York Area." "Sharp-eyed" MTA police officers spotted the man entering Penn Station in Manhattan with another individual on Saturday, where he was found with a knife, according to NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell. A subsequent search of an apartment where the suspect visited turned up an il