Man Accused Of Hate Crime Was Previously Questioned In Another Local Stabbing

The man charged with pushing his way into a rabbi's home and attacking five Hasidic Jews with a machete in the Rockland County hamlet of Monsey was already on the radar of the local police department. Grafton Thomas of Greenwood Lake, New York, was charged with hate crimes in the December 28th attack. But police in Ramapo, the town that includes Monsey, had spoken to the man before while investigating a prior violent crime.

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