Crime & Safety
Graffiti of Swastikas, Other Vulgarities Found on Private Properties
No suspects have been identified yet for the four incidents around Pikesville. Anyone with information should call 410-307-2020.
Baltimore County police found graffiti of swastikas, pentagrams and other vulgarities on four private buildings over the weekend, all within about a mile of each other, according to the Baltimore Sun.
Police are investigating the incidents as possible bias or hate crime, after receiving reports from Friday night through Sunday night, police Cathy Batton told the Sun.
The first reported incident was "on the side of an apartment building in the 6600 block of Sanzo Road that had a pentagram with a swastika in the middle and the figure 666," according to the paper.
The second incident was on the back of the Baltimore Hebrew Congregation Building on the 7400 block of Park Heights Avenue, where police found "swastikas, a hand holding up a middle finger, pentagrams and a Star of David with a swastika inside it," the Sun states.
More pentagrams were found in the third incident on 3000 block of Northbrook Road and the fourth incident on the side of the Wellwood International Elementary School and the Greenspring Shopping Center in the 2800 and 2900 blocks of Smith Avenue, Batton told the paper.
No suspects have been identified. Anyone with information should call 410-307-2020.
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