(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.
Man Threatens To Detonate Bomb At New York Restaurant While Livestreaming, Gets Arrested
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A Manhattan man livestreamed himself approaching restaurant diners on Feb. 13 and threatening to detonate a bomb
The 19-year-old self-identified as an incel and can be seen in his videos accosting and harassing women on Manhattan streets
He was also arrested in October last year after he scaled the Queensboro Bridge
An internet personality who allegedly followed misogynistic idealogy was arrested Wednesday after he was accused by federal authorities of threatening to detonate a bomb at a Manhattan restaurant around Valentine s Day weekend.
According to a federal criminal complaint filed in the Southern District of New York, 19-year-old Malik Sanchez allegedly live-streamed the Feb. 13 incident of him approaching diners outside a Flatiron District restaurant and making fake threats of detonating a bomb, WNBC reported. He faced a single charge of conveying false and mislead
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