Police arrested a man on charges of threatening and intimidating at a Phoenix mosque on Saturday, the day after a suspected gunman opened fire at two Muslim places of worship in Christchurch, New Zealand, killing at least 50 people. He asked unusual questions about service times at the center and another mosque in Tempe, about 30 miles southeast of the state capital, police said. When questioned by one of the mosque’s leaders, Becht allegedly put his finger to his neck and made a sawing motion. “The thing that was a very potential threat was when he made this sign,” Didmar Faja, the mosque’s imam, told Fox 10. Why are you doing that?’ [Becht] said that ‘you will know later.’”Becht remained in custody as of Monday morning.

Source: Huffington Post March 18, 2019 17:15 UTC