13 males plead innocent to function in Brooklyn synagogue tunnel scuffle
NEW YORK CITY (AP)-- Thirteen members of the Hasidic Jewish neighborhood pleaded innocent Wednesday to charges coming from their declared function in a disagreement over an unlawful tunnel developed underneath a historical Brooklyn synagogue.
The offenders, a lot of them global trainees from Israel, appeared in Brooklyn court Wednesday on charges of careless endangerment, criminal mischief and blockage of governmental administration. They were provided a minimal defense order that disallows them from making any excavations or modifications to the structure. They likewise can not touch with a regional rabbi.
District attorneys state the offenders-- who varied in age from 19 to 26-- were associated with a Jan. 8 melee in the basement of the international head office of Chabad-Lubavitch, a m...