The New York City Police Department is asking for the public’s assistance in identifying and locating five individuals depicted in the attached photos who are wanted for questioning in connection to an arson incident which occurred on Sunday in Crown Heights.

As YWN has previously reported, several individuals place cardboard boxes inside of a yellow school bus and set them on fire which ignited into flames damaging bus. The individuals fled the location of foot. There were no injuries as a result of this incident.

On Monday it was announced that an 11-year-old male was arrested and charged with criminal mischief in the 2nd degree as a hate crime and arson in the 4th degree as a hate crime.

Individual #1: Male Black who was last seen wearing a light colored long sleeve shirt, dark pants and white shoes.

Individual #2: Male Black who was last seen wearing a black t-shirt, black pants and dark shoes.

Individual #3: Male Black who was last seen wearing a black jacket, dark pants and black shoes.

Individual#4: Male Black who was last seen wearing a multi colored t-shirt, dark pants and black shoes.

Individual #5: Male Black who was last seen wearing a dark jacket, white shirt underneath, light colored shorts, red socks and white shoes.

Photos are attached.

Anyone with information in regards to this incident is asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the Crime Stoppers website at WWW.NYPDCRIMESTOPPERS.COM or by texting their tips to 274637 (CRIMES) then enter TIP577.

All calls are strictly confidential.

(Dov Gefen – YWN)