Judge Sentences 770 Car Rammer To Time Served, Slams DOJ Request for Hefty Sentence
After he admitted to crashing his car into the Chabad Lubavitch World Headquarters in Brooklyn in late January, a New Jersey man on Wednesday received a sentence of time served — plus seven days to arrange for mental health care upon his release.
Dan Sohail, 36, appeared in security footage repeatedly driving his 2012 Honda Accord into the Chabad building in Crown Heights. The video shows him driving up to the synagogue just before 9 p.m. on Jan. 28 and moving barricades and ushering congregants away from the entrance, before getting back into his car and driving into the building’s exterior wooden door — then backing up and ramming the door again, four more times. Then Sohail, wearing shorts and boots with a mid-weight jacket, exits the car and is arrested by NYPD officers.
The crash knocked the door off its hinges and destroyed Sohail’s car bumper. No one was injured. Sohail will have to pay the Chabad Headquarters restitution of more than $19,000 for the property damage and attend mandatory mental health treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder and a personality disorder.
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