The NYPD is asking the public to help identify a lowlife who stole donations from a Queens church and desecrated its holy water over the weekend in what cops are investigating as a possible hate crime.
The psycho strolled into St. Anastasia Catholic Church in Douglaston at around 11:45 a.m. Saturday and poured a drink in the baptismal font – a dedicated, often pedestal-mounted receptacle containing consecrated water — police said.
The shameless fiend then took an undisclosed amount of money from the donation box and removed a cloth from the altar, according to cops.
He ran off with the cash and cloth and fled to parts unknown.
No injuries were reported from the break-in.
The man was last seen wearing a blue hat, a light-colored sweatshirt, a black jacket, dark-colored pants, dark-colored sneakers, and a bookbag.
The NYPD’s Hate Crime Task Force is investigating.
The department has asked anyone with information about the incident to call its Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the Crime Stoppers website at https://crimestoppers.nypdonline.org/, on X @NYPDTips.
