A Garden City man was arrested in New Hyde Park after allegedly harassing and threatening a woman, the Nassau County Police Department’s Sixth Squad said in a statement.
According to detectives, the female victim, 26, had been contacted through social media by Jon Christ, 30, of Pine Street in Garden City, whom she reportedly knew but did not want to contact her anymore.
“The victim’s boyfriend then responded to the subject through his social media and an exchange ensued,” police said. “[Christ] made threatening and inappropriate posts directed towards the female victim. The exchange escalated and [Christ] threatened physical harm to the male victim.”
An investigation was conducted and Christ was arrested for aggravated harassment around 8:45 p.m. on Tuesday, March 16 in New Hyde Park. The police said that Christ had been arrested “without incident.”
Christ has been charged with three counts of aggravated harassment in the second degree and one count of hate crimes. He was arraigned March 18 in at Nassau First District Court in Mineola, where he was represented by the Legal Aid Society of Nassau County, and is scheduled to return to court on March 25.
