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#Mass-shooting notes, anti-Semitic flyers found in Queens arsonist’s car: feds

#Mass-shooting notes, anti-Semitic flyers found in Queens arsonist’s car: feds

A Queens pharmacist who set a traffic camera on fire last month had a notebook expressing a desire to emulate New Zealand mosque killer Brenton Tarrant and stacks of anti-Semitic propaganda inside his car, federal prosecutors alleged Monday.

Elijah Song, 28, was allegedly spotted setting a camera ablaze in Douglaston late July 17, but fled on foot before cops could catch him, a criminal complaint says.

When fire marshals later searched his car, left nearby, they uncovered the disturbing notebook supporting Tarrant’s manifesto, which said, “I would love to kill me a whole bunch of those f–kers, just like the New Zealand shooter who killed 50 of them,” Brooklyn federal prosecutors alleged in court papers.

Other notes allegedly showed Song was “researching and preparing to construct an AR-15 firearm” and wanted to “obtain training in explosives, knives, guns and hand-to-hand combat,” prosecutors said in papers asking a judge to hold Song behind bars ahead of a trial.

A note stated that after receiving the training, he would “like to be the catalyst, to take back the country from the ancient, evil, devil worshippers,” court documents alleged.

“Fire Marshals also recovered stacks of anti-Semitic propaganda flyers,” the documents said.

They also found two bottles of what appeared to be gasoline, four cans containing 8 gallons of gasoline, aerosol cans matching one left near one of the fires, bolt cutters, a sledge hammer and an 8-inch hunting knife, the court papers charged.

Song was finally arrested for arson Monday. During a video and phone hearing later that day, Brooklyn Federal Judge Steven Gold ordered Song be held without bail, for reasons including the cache of alarming materials allegedly found in his car.

The judge said his decision was “based upon the danger indicated by the excerpts from the notebook that refer to admiring someone who killed people and expressed a desire to kill people himself and it’s based on the indications and efforts to get parts for an assault rifle.”

“When you take that with the logic and the wanton disregard for the safety of what he was involved in, that goes along with lighting fire to cameras at a busy intersection — even if it was in the middle of the night — this is a very disturbing case with respect to the danger to the community,” Gold continued.

Song’s lawyer, Nicholas Ramcharitar, asked the judge earlier in the hearing to consider releasing Song with GPS monitoring noting that he would be living with his mother.

Ramcharitar said Song comes from a strict and traditional Korean family, noting he has a high level of education and has been “an upstanding member of the community prior to these allegations.”

Ramcharitar, who also represented Song in a February case for allegedly punching an acquaintance, said that case was nearing conditional dismissal as prosecutors acknowledged the alleged assault was in self-defense.

After the hearing, Ramcharitar told The Post by phone, “Mr. Song denies any and all allegations referring to any arson changes and any terrorist charges as the government has made allegations to in their detention memo.

“Mr. Song fully intends to fight these charges.”

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