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A criminal complaint unsealed Monday said McCray was recorded on
surveillance video scaling a fence to a private lot for reserve
New York Police Department vehicles in Brooklyn’s Bushwick
neighborhood shortly before 1 a.m. on June 12. A police officer
arrived about a half hour later to find the vehicles on fire and
the suspect fleeing through a hole in the fence, it said.
The complaint said a lighter and a pair of sunglasses containing
McCray's fingerprints were found at the scene, along with fire
starters that had been placed under some undamaged vehicles.
Police estimated the replacement cost of the vehicles at
$800,000.
McCray’s attorney, Ron Kuby, said his client, whom he described
as an activist, was ordered released on the arson charge but
remained in police custody on a separate misdemeanor count in
Manhattan.
After the vehicles were torched, Mayor Eric Adams suggested the
suspect was connected to protests in Los Angeles, New York and
elsewhere over the Trump administration’s immigration
enforcement agenda.
“Setting police vehicles ablaze is not a form of protest — it is
a federal crime,” Joseph Nocella Jr., U.S. attorney for the
Eastern District of New York, said in a news release Monday.
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