Jacob Beacher, 25, was sentenced to six months in prison, ordered to pay $19,345 in restitution and placed on one-year supervised release.

A suspect has been charged with a federal hate crime after allegedly breaking into and destroying property at Rutgers University’s Center for Islamic Life.

A New Jersey man was sentenced to six months in jail for breaking into a Rutgers University Islamic center and vandalizing it on Eid-al-Fitr​.

Jacob Beacher, 25, was also fined $19,345 and will be placed under supervised release for one year after he gets released, reported the Central New Jersey Home News Tribune. Beacher, a North ...

A man charged with vandalizing a Rutgers Islamic center last year was sentenced to six months in jail. Jacob Beacher, of North Plainfield, pleaded guilty to a federal hate crime in October for ...