Police on Long Island say they've arrested a yeshiva student
from Queens in connection with a series of anti-Semitic graffiti at a Long
Island Rail Road station.
Jonathan Schuster, 18, of Far Rockaway, is accused of
vandalizing billboards at the Cedarhurst LIRR station at least eight different
times, Nassau and MTA police say.
The black-marker graffiti made anti-Semitic statements and
used expletives.
Schuster is being charged with eight counts each of felony
hate crime, misdemeanor criminal mischief and misdemeanor making graffiti.
Schuster is a senior at Priority-1: Torah Academy of
Lawrence-Cedarhurst, a yeshiva in Nassau, police said.
A message was left with the school. It wasn't immediately
clear if Schuster had an attorney.
The year-long investigation included uniformed patrols and
undercover detectives by both MTA and Nassau police. Police are still
investigating several other incidents of anti-Semitic graffiti at LIRR
stations, including at Lawrence and Hewlett stations.
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