Man Charged Federally After Ramming Chabad World Headquarters Entrance Five Times
On March 2, 2026, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York announced that a federal complaint had been unsealed in federal court in Brooklyn, Kings County, New York City, New York, charging Dan Sohail, 36, with intentionally damaging religious property: the global headquarters of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. Sohail was taken into federal custody that day and was to be arraigned that afternoon before U.S. Magistrate Judge Clay H. Kaminsky.
The complaint alleges that on the evening of January 28, 2026, Sohail drove to a side entrance of the headquarters on Eastern Parkway while an event attended by dozens of people was under way inside. He moved barriers aside, gestured for congregants to move away, then drove into the side entrance, reversed and accelerated into it four more times, five times in all, knocking the door off its hinges. No one was injured.
If convicted, Sohail faces up to three years in prison, prosecutors said. U.S. Attorney Joseph Nocella Jr., Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon of the Civil Rights Division, the FBI's New York Field Office and the New York City Police Department jointly announced the charge. The charge is an allegation, and the defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.
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Source: U.S. Department of Justice
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Photo: 图：2026年1月28日晚，纽约市警察局拆弹小组在布鲁克林 Eastern Parkway 的 Chabad 全球总部侧门外检查冲撞大门的涉案车辆，现场拉起警戒线（事发现场照片）。BruceSchaff 摄，CC BY-SA 4.0，经 Wikimedia Commons。 / Photo: On the night of January 28, 2026, the NYPD Bomb Squad inspects the vehicle that rammed the side entrance of the Chabad world headquarters on Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn, behind crime-scene tape (scene photo). Photo by BruceSchaff, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
