Domagoj Patkovic, of Oregon, sentenced to 5 years in prison for threatening to bomb a hospital, Jewish institutions in Nassau and NYC

A federal judge in Brooklyn sentenced an Oregon man who threatened to blow up a Nassau County hospital and other Jewish facilities on Long Island and New York City to 60 months in prison, prosecutors said on Wednesday.

Domagoj Patkovic, 31, of Portland, and others threatened to detonate explosives during anonymous phone calls to hospitals and other Jewish facilities across the nation, federal prosecutors said in court documents. Patkovic, the papers said, personally made at least six threatening calls to Jewish medical facilities on Long Island and in New York City, between May and September 2021.

A Nassau County hospital was locked down and partially evacuated after receiving a threat from Patkovic, according to the 23-count indictment unsealed following Patkovic’s arrest in August. Patkovic pleaded guilty in February to conspiring to make threats concerning explosives and conveying false information concerning explosives.

"The defendant endangered patients and diverted precious law-enforcement resources to advance his hateful agenda against people of the Jewish faith," said U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York Joseph Nocella Jr. "His actions fed a rising tide of antisemitism in America."

Patkovic’s attorney, James Darrow of the Federal Defenders, declined to comment on the sentence imposed by U.S. District Judge Ramon E. Reyes Jr.

Patkovic livestreamed the calls on Discord, a social media site popular with the far-right, federal prosecutors said in court filings. After vowing to blow up the Nassau hospital, Patkovic repeated the threat to an NYPD 911 operator investigating the call — and then turned the camera on himself, identifying him as the perpetrator.

According to court documents, the phone operator at the Nassau hospital received a call on Sept. 15, 2021, from a man who identified himself as "Abrahimavich."

The caller said he had placed C-4 explosives in maintenance closets at the hospital and threatened to blow up the facility. Personnel at the NYPD call center called the originating number and spoke to a man who acknowledged he was "Abrahimavich," and admitted making the threatening call to the Long Island hospital. The court papers included a screenshot of Patkovic.

Nassau County police locked down the hospital and conducted a partial evacuation, prosecutors said. No explosives were found.

About a half-hour earlier, Patkovic told personnel at a Jewish hospital in Queens that he had placed backpacks with C-4 around the building. NYPD officers searched the building and did not find explosives.

Patkovic also called in bomb threats in 2021 to Jewish health care facilities in Queens, Brooklyn and Manhattan, prosecutors said.