Dan Sohail pleaded guilty Wednesday to a charge stemming from the Jan. 28 car-ramming of the Brooklyn headquarters of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement. File +Photo by Bonnie Cash/UPI | License Photo
May 14 (UPI) -- The man accused of repeatedly crashing his vehicle into an entrance of the Brooklyn headquarters of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement in January has pleaded guilty, according to federal prosecutors.
Dan Sohail entered his guilty plea to a charge of damaging religious property Wednesday before U.S. District Judge Eric Vitaliano in a federal courtroom in Brooklyn, N.Y., and now faces a maximum penalty of three years' imprisonment and mandatory restitution when sentenced.
"The defendant's dangerous conduct was a targeted attack on the religious liberty and peace of worship to which every American is entitled," Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division said in a statement.
"Today's conviction sends a clear message: the Department of Justice will not tolerate acts of hatred and violence against religious institutions."
