Crime & Safety
Man Charged With Damaging Suffolk County Church Shrine: Police
Glass displays and statues were damaged, police said; the incident was investigated by Suffolk County's Hate Crimes Unit.
A Riverhead man was cuffed after he damaged a church shrine in Mastic Beach, police said.
According to Suffolk County Police, Darron Denninger, 25, was arrested on Wednesday at 5 p.m. and charged with second degree criminal mischief, a felony, after damaging items at St. Jude’s Church on Dec. 15 at 5:30 a.m.
Police said Denninger damaged glass displays and statutes at a shrine located at the church on the corner of Neighborhood Road and Hemlock Drive.
After an investigation by Suffolk County Hate Crimes Unit detectives, Denninger was apprehended, police said.
He is scheduled to be arraigned at First District Court in Central Islip on Thursday, police said.
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