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Yahoo
01-04-2025
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Ventura police arrest man for allegedly spray painting swastikas in downtown, midtown
A Ventura man was arrested Sunday morning after allegeding spray painting swastikas on five properties in midtown and downtown. The Ventura Police Department said officers were called to the first property shortly after 9 a.m. to the 1000 block of E. Front Street on a report of vandalism of the swastika. Officers watched surveillance video from the business and later identified the man. Officers later learned of four additional swastikas on both public and private property, police said. Police eventually spotted the man, 30, riding an electric scooter around 11 a.m. near Main and Ash streets. Officers stopped him and found evidence connecting him to the vandalism and hate crime, police said. During the investigation, officers discovered the man's social media accounts. Police said the man was allegedly spray painting the swastikas and taking photos of them. Police said they believed the man was uploading the images to his social accounts to give the impression that other people were committing hate crimes as a way of spreading fear. Cmdr. Ryan Weeks said the preliminary investigation did not indicate the man targeted any particular business owner. The man was arrested on suspicion of multiple counts of felony vandalism and parole violation and misdemeanors for vandalism, hate crime and possession of a stun gun by a person on felony parole, according to jail records. He was booked into Ventura County jail and is being held on $250,000 bail. The man is set to appear in Ventura County Superior Court Wednesday afternoon. It's at least the third hate crime reported in Ventura County in recent weeks. On March 17, a portable toilet used by farmworkers in Camarillo was marked with a message essentially saying Mexicans should be deported. Swastikas were also reported at Newbury Park High School Feb. 27. This article originally appeared on Ventura County Star: Police arrest man for allegedly painting swastikas in Ventura
Yahoo
28-02-2025
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Newbury Park High vandalized with swastika, profanities
Newbury Park High School was vandalized Thursday night with graffiti that included a swastika, authorities said. The vandalism was reported around 8 p.m. on a wall near the administration building on North Reino Road campus, said Ventura County Sheriff's Capt. Cyrus Zadeh. He did not know who reported the incident. Deputies with the Thousand Oaks station responded and found racial slurs, profanity and swastikas spray painted, he said. Deputies documented the graffiti as a hate crime and vandalism. The city of Thousand Oaks, which covers portions of Newbury Park, contracts its police services with the sheriff's office. Zadeh said the report has since been handed over to investigators. Reports of hateful graffiti have happened across Ventura County in recent years. In June 2022, a Thousand Oaks elementary school was targeted with what Mark McLaughlin, superintendent of the Conejo Valley Unified School District, described at the time as "hateful speech." In January 2019, a Jewish synagogue in Ventura was vandalized with a swastika. In August of the same year, a truck parked at an overflow lot of a Thousand Oaks car dealership was spray painted with a backward swastika and a the words "white power." A spokeswoman for Conejo Valley Unified took questions about the incident Friday morning. This story may be updated. Stacie N. Galang is news director of the Ventura County Star. She can be reached at or 805-437-0222. This article originally appeared on Ventura County Star: Newbury Park High vandalized with swastika, profanities
