Suffolk County police have busted the man who left an anti-Hispanic note at the altar of a church.
And the suspect is Hispanic.
Christian Mungia Garcia, 25, was arrested Friday night after hurling a wooden log and a glass bottle at a congregant of the Iglesia Evangelica Refugio de Salvacion in Patchogue. Cops later accused Garcia of leaving the hate-filled note Wednesday at the church.
Garcia was charged with attempted assault as a hate crime, police said. He was arraigned yesterday and due back in court Thursday.
The arrest comes on the heels of a
Southern Poverty Law Center report that found Latino immigrants in Suffolk County live in a "climate of fear." Last fall, a gang of teens jumped Ecuadorian immigrant Marcelo Lucero and stabbed him to death.
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