Mysterious, Threatening Holiday Cards Leave IE Neighborhood Confused, Alarmed

YUCAIPA, CA — Residents of a Yucaipa neighborhood are confused and alarmed after violent and threatening holiday cards and notes were left at their homes by masked people, according to police and media reports.

The incident happened around 8:30 p.m. Nov. 17 in the area of the 13000 block of Jennifer Lane, police said, adding two people wearing ski masks and black clothing approached the homes and placed “handwritten explicit flyers” on porches.

“When approached by a homeowner both subjects ran away,” the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department said in a news release.

Roger Reed told KTLA his home received one of the cards, which said, “Dear Santa, I want the head of a Nazi under my tree.”

“We were immediately freaked out by the situation,” he told the outlet.

His fiancé, Jaret McComas, told KABC that neither the couple nor the other residents who got the cards and notes had political signs displayed.

"I am not a heavy conservative,” he told the station. “I'm gay, engaged to my fiancé Roger. So, it's just kind of concerning for me because I am like, 'What did I do?’ "

Reed estimated about a dozen households received the cards and notes, he told the Los Angeles Times, which reported that one message included a time and a date — Dec. 3 — and the words “you are warned.”

Anyone with information about the case is asked to call police at 909-918-2330 or anonymously call 1-888-782-7463 or visit www.wetip.com.