Cops: Man arrested on hate crime charges for threat
A Medford man who threatened to start a race war by killing white people was arrested on a hate crime charge Friday, Suffolk County police said in a news release.
Julien Henriquez, 30, was upset with the service he received at an unidentified business in Medford on April 27. He later called the business and threatened to kill white people in a race war, police said.
Following an investigation by Hate Crime Unit detectives, Henriquez was arrested at his Jamaica Avenue home at about 2:05 p.m., police said.
Henriquez was charged with second-degree aggravated harassment as a hate crime, which is a felony under New York State law, police said.
It wasn't clear if Henriquez had retained a defense attorney.
He will be arraigned at First District Court in Central Islip on a later date, police said.
Deborah Morris is a native Long Islander and covers the town of Huntington.
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