{"id":1566243,"date":"2022-07-22T11:06:05","date_gmt":"2022-07-22T15:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1566243"},"modified":"2022-07-22T11:06:06","modified_gmt":"2022-07-22T15:06:06","slug":"rep-lee-zeldin-correctly-predicts-attacker-would-be-released-from-jail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rep-lee-zeldin-correctly-predicts-attacker-would-be-released-from-jail\/","title":{"rendered":"Rep. Lee Zeldin Correctly Predicts Attacker Would Be Released From Jail"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frep-lee-zeldin-correctly-predicts-attacker-would-be-released-from-jail%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1566243&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A man who approached Rep. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-lee-zeldin\">Lee Zeldin<\/a> (R-N.Y.) during a campaign stop and appeared to attack him while holding a bladed weapon was released from jail hours after he was arrested on Thursday evening, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>David Jakubonis, 43, was arraigned on Thursday night in\u00a0Perinton Town Court on\u00a0second-degree attempted assault stemming from the attack on Zeldin, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-republican\">Republican<\/a> running for governor in New York. He was released on his own recognizance, according to local reports and officials.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0Monroe County Sheriff\u2019s Department <a href=\"https:\/\/wcti12.com\/resources\/media\/992c4f1e-c33a-4d4f-b4b5-efe339b410a7-medium16x9_MonroeCounty.jpg?1658494467073\">said\u00a0<\/a>Jakubonis\u2014who told Zeldin \u201cyou\u2019re done\u201d\u2014was released from custody within hours on \u201chis own recognizance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a late-night Twitter post, Zeldin predicted that\u00a0Jakubonis would be released due to New York\u2019s controversial bail reform laws that Republicans and some law enforcement groups say have driven up crime.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis words as he tried to stab me a few hours ago were \u2018you\u2019re done\u2019, but several attendees, including @EspositoforNY, quickly jumped into action &#038; tackled the guy,\u201d he wrote on Friday morning. \u201cLaw enforcement was on the scene within minutes. The attacker will likely be instantly released under NY\u2019s laws.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Zeldin, a congressman from Long Island, was <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/07\/22\/lee-zeldins-alleged-attacker-quickly-released-from-jail\/\">giving<\/a> a speech about bail reform laws when he was approached by\u00a0Jakubonis, according to the New York Post. Photos show that he was carrying an unknown weapon with two small blades in his hand.<\/p>\n<p> More Details <\/p>\n<p>Joe Chenelly, a New York State Assembly candidate, tackled\u00a0Jakubonis at the event and recalled the incident.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI could see what looked like a razor or knife of some sort,\u201d Chenelly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/man-tackled-lee-zeldin-attacker-enraged-suspect-immediately-released-ny-bail-laws\">told<\/a> Fox News on Friday.\u00a0\u201cAs he attempted another swing, I tackled the attacker from the back and slammed him to the ground where several of us were able to restrain him and get the weapon away from him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chenelly told Rochester First that when he spoke to\u00a0Jakubonis, the suspect told him<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man who approached Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-N.Y.) during a campaign stop and appeared to attack him while holding a bladed weapon was released from jail hours after he was arrested on Thursday evening, officials said. David Jakubonis, 43, was arraigned on Thursday night in\u00a0Perinton Town Court on\u00a0second-degree attempted assault stemming from the attack on [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1566243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1566243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1566243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1566243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1566243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1566243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1566243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}