An indictment was unsealed this morning in Brooklyn federal court charging Queens resident Ray Lazier Lengend, also known as “Suraj Poonai,” with hate crimes and explosives offenses stemming from his racially and religiously motivated fire-bombings of the Imam Al- Khoei Foundation mosque in Jamaica, Queens, and a Hindu temple housed in a private residence in Hillside, Queens on January 1, 2012. Lengend is also charged with an explosives offense in connection with his fire-bombing of a convenience store in Hillside, Queens. The defendant will be arraigned on the afternoon of March 26, 2012 before United States Magistrate Judge Ramon E Reyes, Jr at the United States Courthouse, 225 Cadman Plaza East, Brooklyn, New York.
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