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Patchogue hate-crime suspect held on $7,500 bail
Quick ReadChurchgoers were leaving the church Friday night when the log and bottle came flying.
Photo credit: James Carbone | Christhian Munguia Garcia, 25, is led out of Fifth Precinct in Patchogue, charged with hate crimes against the Iglesia Evangelica Refugio de Salvacion Church in Patchogue. (Sept. 5, 2009)
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The investigation into hate-filled notes that were left on a Patchogue church altar and suspected at first of being an anti-Hispanic bias attack took a different turn Saturday with the arrest of a Hispanic man who once wanted to worship there.
Suffolk County Police say Christhian Munguia Garcia was linked to the letters after being chased down and arrested Friday night as part of a group that...
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