Man Who Peed On Williamsburg Church, Toppled Statues Arrested

WILLIAMSBURG, BROOKLYN — Police have arrested a Bushwick man for peeing on a Metropolitan Avenue church last week and toppling its statues. The incident had garnered the outrage and financial help of various community leaders, who said it is the latest in a pattern of hate crimes in the city.

Andrew Oshesky, 23, was charged with two counts of a criminal mischief as a hate crime, two counts of criminal mischief for property damage, aggravated harassment and urinating in public.

Oshesky was caught on camera last Sunday just before 4 a.m. on the steps of Our Lady of Consolation Roman Catholic Church, where he relieved himself before pushing over two statues, which broke from the fall.

Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams later held a press conference about the incident, where he and other community leaders pledged to pay to have the statues fixed. The incident was one of six times in eight years the church had been vandalized, Adams said.

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