What to Know
- A suspect has been arrested in connection with swastikas and hateful graffiti scrawled on ambulances in Manhattan
- The 42-year-old suspect was taken into custody at the 34th Precinct in Washington Heights
- Swastikas and hate graffiti were found on ambulances in Washington Heights on two different days in August
A man returned to the firehouse where ambulances had been scrawled with swastikas and hateful graffiti and was arrested when he started to vandalize again, authorities said.
Jem Ibrahimov, 42, of Manhattan, was taken into custody in Washington Heights around 8:30 a.m. Saturday, police and the FDNY said.
He was charged with aggravated harassment, making graffiti, criminal mischief and possession of graffiti instruments, the NYPD said.
The FDNY said in a Facebook post that additional security had been posted at the Washington Heights station that had been previously targeted. Those fire marshalls "apprehended the suspect in the act," the FDNY said.
Ibrahimov was spotted drawing swastikas and writing phrases like “Nazi Pigs” on five ambulances at an EMS station in Washington Heights on Aug. 26, the FDNY said.
He also vandalized four more ambulances and a firehouse door at Engine 93 in Washington Heights on Friday, scrawling swastikas and the words “rapist” and “Nazi," according to the FDNY.
