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Northville Man Charged With Hate Crime After Anti-Islam Tirade at Somerset Mall

A $1 million bond signals prosecutors' hard line on alleged hate-motivated harassment.

Overview

  • Prosecutors say 53-year-old Subi Saad confronted two men inside a store with vulgar anti-Islam remarks and claimed he had a gun in his car.
  • He was escorted from Somerset Mall and then shouted vulgarities at police in the parking lot.
  • Investigators say he later exposed himself to a corrections officer while he was in jail.
  • He faces charges of a hate crime, aggravated indecent exposure, and disturbing the peace, and a judge set bond at $1 million with a GPS tether if released.
  • If convicted, the hate-crime and indecent-exposure counts each carry up to two years in prison, and the prosecutor said no one should be harassed or threatened because of their religion.