{"id":465621,"date":"2025-12-23T02:04:22","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T02:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/465621\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T02:04:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T02:04:22","slug":"quick-thinking-nyc-deacon-foils-knife-wielding-thief-at-sunday-mass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/465621\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick-thinking NYC deacon foils knife-wielding thief at Sunday mass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A would-be thief interrupted Sunday mass at a <a href=\"https:\/\/dioceseofbrooklyn.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Queens Catholic church <\/a>to demand cash at knifepoint but a quick-thinking deacon just wasn\u2019t having it, cops said.<\/p>\n<p>The thief knocked on the door of <a href=\"https:\/\/saintsmaryandgertrude.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">St. Mary Star of the Sea and St Gertrude Catholic Church<\/a> as the Beach 38th St. house of worship located near Beach Channel Drive in Far Rockaway was scheduled to begin its 9:30 a.m. mass, police said.<\/p>\n<p>A deacon answered the door to find the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/assets\/nypd\/downloads\/pdf\/crime_statistics\/cs-en-us-city.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> crook knife in hand,<\/a> demanding cash.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of handing over his money, the deacon <a href=\"https:\/\/abc7ny.com\/post\/exclusive-video-bronx-deli-robbery-caught-on-camera-nyc-crime\/13782669\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">acted fast to protect himself and the flock<\/a>, slamming the door shut and calling 911, cops said.<\/p>\n<p>Police arrested Miguel Bonano, 64, at the scene less than 20 minutes later.<\/p>\n<p>During the arrest, <a href=\"https:\/\/ucr.fbi.gov\/crime-in-the-u.s\/2019\/crime-in-the-u.s.-2019\/topic-pages\/robbery\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">police recovered a knife from Bonano\u2019s jacket pocket<\/a>, which the victim identified as the stickup weapon.<\/p>\n<p>Bonano later told investigators, \u201cI took out a knife and I tried to rob the guy,\u201d court documents show.<\/p>\n<p>Bonano is charged with attempted robbery and criminal possession of a weapon. He was held on $10,000 cash bail at his arraignment Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A would-be thief interrupted Sunday mass at a Queens Catholic church to demand cash at knifepoint but a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":465622,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,2451,3059,5295,1370,728,405,403,5294,50,5226,5225,5228,5227,5293,5321,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-465621","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-city","10":"tag-county","11":"tag-crime-and-public-safety","12":"tag-latest-headlines","13":"tag-local-news","14":"tag-new-york","15":"tag-new-york-city","16":"tag-new-york-county","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-newyork","19":"tag-newyorkcity","20":"tag-ny","21":"tag-nyc","22":"tag-nyc-crime","23":"tag-sub-county-region","24":"tag-united-states","25":"tag-united-states-of-america","26":"tag-unitedstates","27":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","28":"tag-us","29":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115766431900963293","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}