CARLTON, N.Y. — Authorities have arrested a group of teenagers for yelling obscenities, honking car horns and firing a shotgun outside a mosque in western New York. Two 17-year-old boys and three 18-year-olds were charged with disrupting a religious service, a misdemeanor, at the World Sufi Foundation mosque in the Lake Ontario town of Carlton on Monday night. Orleans County...
CARLTON, N.Y. — Authorities have arrested a group of teenagers for yelling obscenities, honking car horns and firing a shotgun outside a mosque in western New York.
Two 17-year-old boys and three 18-year-olds were charged with disrupting a religious service, a misdemeanor, at the World Sufi Foundation mosque in the Lake Ontario town of Carlton on Monday night.
Orleans County Sheriff Scott Hess says the same teens from nearby Holley also shouted epithets and honked horns as they drove past the mosque on Friday. A prosecutor says Tuesday that 17-year-old Mark Vendetti fired a shotgun twice into the ground near the mosque during that incident.
Vendetti, who hasn’t yet been assigned a lawyer, was charged with felony criminal possession of a weapon and ordered held on $10,000 bail. A hearing for the teens is set for Monday.