Man Accused of Burning Mezuzos Is in Police Custody
The suspect in this week’s hate-crime burning of a dozen Jewish doorway adornments in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, is in custody, a law enforcement official said Wednesday.
He was identified as Ruben Ubiles, 35, who the police say has more than 50 prior arrests, on charges including robbery, assault, and weapons and drug possession. No information was immediately released on where and how Mr. Ubiles, who uses several names and was initially identified by the police as Rubin Ublies, was apprehended.
On Monday afternoon, the police said, 11 of the symbols, known as mezuzot, were damaged by fire inside 85 Taylor Street, a public-housing complex on Williamsburg’s south side. On Tuesday, another mezuza was burned a block away inside 130 Clymer Street.
The burnings Monday coincided with Holocaust Remembrance Day, but the police said they did not know whether the timing had anything to do with the crime. A mezuza is a small case containing a miniature scroll with verses from Deuteronomy that many Jews affix to their doorframes as a reminder of God’s presence and commandments.
wondering
obviously copy pasted from somewhere….
mezuzot?
we know wat they r
50 prior arrests!
He was CAUGHT 50 times, how many hundreds of crimes has this low life committed? Why is a career criminal like this allowed to victimize society again and again and again?! There is something very wrong with the criminal justice system. When he kills someone R”L THEN they’ll lock him up with a lengthy sentence…
Out of Town Shliach
Lock him up and throw away the key.
Milhouse
Um, a life sentence for a bit of vandalism?!
smr
sholom mordechai is sitting in Jail and this piece of trash is out free time and again to hurt and harm.
it truly is Olam Hasheker.
we need Moshiach!!!
you buyin?
hey #3, you okay with your taxes going up in order to support your policy of ‘lock him up and throw away the key’? ’cause that’s what it would take, MORE money for the PRIVATE prison systems…which we all pay for…nice, eh?
Chain reaction
The more you take trash (this criminal) out of the dumpster (jail) the worse it gets. Let the garbage men(justice system) take the garbage and put it in a landfill (life sentence for a habitues offender and now for hate crime which is btw 5 years min sentence). But also it you keep pulling out the trash out of the dumpster it get wormy, buggy, and filled with rats(criminal friends that could CV cause more problems in the city like more hate crimes, robbery and murder)
I think I would let them take my tax money for that. Its a good investment.
to #1
on top it says from the ny times
let him
let him burn
anonymous
Let u burn! how can u say that about a human being! You can give him a sentence he deserves but burn!!!!!
Out of Town Shliach
Reply to #5 ” you buyin.”
It is better to spend the money than to allow a dangerous animal like this on the streets.
Dina
why did they have to wait for him to commit so many crimes to lock him up?
Money can't compare
Back in the 70’s. a friend of mine was going to college for a Law degree. One of the topics at the time was putting murderers or other death-deserving criminals in jail. “Why waste tax-payer money on these monsters? Just execute them, they deserve it anyway.”
His response was, “You cannot compare someone’s life to money.”
ch resident
they arent sure it was a bias crime. is that a joke or what? he burns a bunch of MEZUZOS and they don’t know?
Milhouse
How does that prove it? Do you imagine that antisemitism is the only possible reason why someone might do this?!