Queens man arrested with Molotov cocktails after alleged arson attacks on Ozone Park and Woodhaven churches

Yogesh Sayrange, 36, is accused of throwing Molotov cocktails astatine 2 Queens houses of worship and a adjacent commercialized gathering precocious Wednesday nighttime earlier officers arrested him carrying further incendiary devices, according to constabulary and instrumentality enforcement sources.

Sayrange allegedly targeted Iglesia Bautista El Mesias successful the Ozone Park vicinity soon earlier 11 p.m., wherever surveillance video appears to amusement him speaking with 3 different men earlier lighting a Molotov cocktail and throwing it implicit the beforehand gross toward the church's entrance.

The vessel ignited adjacent the beforehand doorway earlier Sayrange walked away, according to surveillance video published by the New York Post.

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Iglesia Bautista El Mesias successful the Ozone Park vicinity of Queens. Police allege Yogesh Sayrange threw a Molotov cocktail astatine the religion precocious Wednesday night. (Google Maps)

The FDNY confirmed to Fox News Digital that it received a telephone astatine 11:57 p.m. Wednesday for a reported incendiary instrumentality thrown astatine a religion connected 75th Street successful Ozone Park. Fire marshals and the NYPD are investigating.

Police said Sayrange past walked little than a mile to a Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses successful adjacent Woodhaven, wherever helium allegedly threw different Molotov cocktail astatine the building's beforehand entrance, sparking a 2nd fire.

The FDNY besides confirmed to Fox News Digital that it received a 2nd telephone astatine 12:08 a.m. Thursday for a reported incendiary instrumentality thrown astatine a religion connected 78th Street successful Woodhaven. Fire marshals and the NYPD are investigating.

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A Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses successful the Woodhaven vicinity of Queens. Police allege the gathering was targeted successful a 2nd Molotov cocktail onslaught precocious Wednesday. (Google Maps)

Police said nary injuries oregon important harm were reported astatine either church.

Investigators aboriginal determined Sayrange besides allegedly threw a 3rd Molotov cocktail astatine an ambulette work gathering connected Rockaway Boulevard adjacent 77th Street successful Woodhaven astir the aforesaid time, constabulary said.

No injuries oregon harm were reported there, constabulary said.

Officers took Sayrange into custody astatine astir 12:10 a.m. Thursday and recovered 2 further Molotov cocktails from his backpack, according to constabulary sources.

Investigators are besides examining whether Sayrange whitethorn beryllium connected to respective akin incidents dating backmost to past month, according to instrumentality enforcement sources. Authorities person not publically announced immoderate further cases tied to him.

An NYPD van parked connected a thoroughfare successful Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York, connected April 27, 2025. (Kyle Mazza/Anadolu via Getty Images)

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Sayrange appeared successful national tribunal Thursday successful transportation with a transgression ailment alleging helium threw an incendiary instrumentality into a Brooklyn concern connected June 25.

Fox News Digital has reached retired to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York for further accusation astir the Queens investigation.