Suspect Juan Velez arrested for vandalizing Queens church also broke window at St. Patrick's Cathedral, NYPD says
NEW YORK -- A man arrested for vandalizing a church in Queens previously broke a window at Timothy Cardinal Dolan's residence at Saint Patrick's Cathedral, the NYPD said Monday.
Police said Juan Velez was caught on video last week throwing a rock at the glass front door of Grace Lutheran Church on Union Turnpike. He was charged with criminal mischief as a hate crime.
Investigators said Velez threw a wrench at a window panel at the Cardinal's residence in Manhattan in Nov. 2022. There were no injuries.
Velez may be responsible for at least one other incident, police said.
