The man accused of attacking a woman and security guard at a New York City synagogue during Shabbat services Friday has been charged with hate crimes in Manhattan federal court, prosecutors said.

Larry Montes, who is already facing state-level hate crime charges, allegedly struck a 63-year-old woman as security was trying to boot him from Central Synagogue. He allegedly spat at, and head-butted, a security team member and damaged synagogue property, authorities said.

Montes is charged federally with two counts of committing hate crimes and one count of damage to religious property resulting in bodily injury, according to Manhattan federal prosecutors.

The woman suffered a cut on her lip as well as a forearm injury. A New York police department sergeant assigned to Central Synagogue intervened right away and arrested Montes, authorities said.

The incident took place after 6pm as Shabbat services were getting started.

Montes’s alleged attack was visible on a livestream of the services. The stream showed a man yelling as a security guard tried to restrain him and take him out of the synagogue.

The southern district of New York criminal complaint said Montes, who was sitting in one of the synagogue’s seating rows, stood up about nine minutes into the service, shouting: “You know who the fuck I am!”

He then allegedly went up to the stage and “physically struck with his arm two ceremonial silver candlesticks with gold accents, causing them to fall to the ground”. Both candlestick bases were bent and some accents were damaged, prosecutors alleged.

When the synagogue’s head of security tried removing him, Montes allegedly said “fuck you people” and “I don’t fuck with you people.” Montes told the man he head-butted, who is Black, “fuck you” with a racial slur, according to the Manhattan federal court criminal complaint.

In a post-arrest interview, Montes allegedly said “fuck the Jews … it’s racial”, and “I will never affiliate with no filthy fucking synagogues, either here or in fucking Israel.”

Montes also allegedly said that he felt disrespected during the service and “got up, start[ed] some shit, [and] smacked somebody around”, the southern district of New York prosecutors’ criminal complaint stated.

Asked why he felt disrespected, Montes allegedly told police: “It’s all a racial thing” and “all religious motivated”. The police then asked why Montes used a racial slur against the Black security officer.

“Listen, I have racial issues,” Montes allegedly said. “OK, I’m straight to the point.”

Contact information for Montes’s attorney was not immediately available.

“Today, the Southern District of New York filed federal charges against Larry Montes for his violent, hate‑motivated attack during Shabbat services at Central Synagogue on August 14, in which he disrupted worship, struck a congregant, damaged synagogue property, and spat on and head-butted a security guard,” Manhattan US attorney Jamie McDonald said in a press release about Montes’s arrest.

“An attack on a house of worship is an attack on the fundamental right to practice one’s faith safely, and our Office will work tirelessly to ensure the defendant is held fully accountable as we continue to protect all communities from hate‑driven violence,” the statement added.

Jessica Tisch, the New York City police commissioner, commented: “As alleged in the complaint, Larry Montes brought violence to Jewish New Yorkers engaged in prayer when he disrupted Shabbat services at Central Synagogue in Manhattan.”

She added: “I am grateful that an NYPD sergeant was there to take him into custody, and for the ongoing efforts of our Hate Crimes Task Force and our federal partners to hold Montes accountable for his alleged crimes.”