The Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office has announced a man from Denville has been criminally charged with a bias crime as a result of threatening comments he made at a Deal synagogue.

According to authorities, Nicholas Skirvin, 44, is charged with second-degree bias intimidation and third-degree making terroristic threats, among other charges.

Police responded July 15 around 1 p.m. to Ohel Yaacob Congregation, at the corner of Lawrence Avenue and Ocean Avenue North.

Authorities say Skirvin filmed himself with a cellphone making obscene gestures, in addition to screaming profanity-laced ethnic and homophobic slurs outside of the synagogue.

Skirvin was identified as a suspect in the case and was arrested on a beach in Asbury Park later the same afternoon. He was transported to the Monmouth County Correctional Institution pending a detention hearing scheduled for July 25 before Monmouth County Superior Court Judge Paul Escandon.

Deal has a large population of orthodox Jewish community members.

If convicted, Skirvin faces up to 10 years in prison.