A 20-year-old charged with hate crimes for allegedly assaulting three Jewish students had a stash of weapons, $750,000 in cash, and a phone filled with violent, anti-Semitic messages and pro-Hamas and pro-Hezbollah images, according to prosecutors.
Prosecutors accused New Yorker Tarek Bazrouk, who’s been arrested six times for “his conduct at Israel/Gaza protests,” of assaulting the Jewish students between April 2024 and January 2025. Law enforcement searched his Manhattan apartment earlier this month and found brass knuckles (which are illegal in New York), four knives, a taser, an airsoft gun that looks identical to a real revolver, spent casings from an actual firearm, and $500,000 in cash, according to a May 7 filing. An additional search turned up another $250,000, a Wednesday filing revealed.
Bazrouk, however, lives with his parents. He said he has a net worth of $3,000 and that he’s “unemployed” and “supported by his…
