Crime & Safety
Some Fool Scrawled Swastikas All Over Jewish Brooklyn Last Weekend
No garbage can nor traffic control box in Marine Park was safe from his rampage.

MARINE PARK, BROOKLYN — Some fool in dark clothing, pictured above, went on a swastika-scrawling spree across an Orthodox Jewish neighborhood in South Brooklyn last Sunday night, according to the NYPD.
Wearing a black backpack and armed with a white marker, police said, the unidentified man had tagged the following five objects along a four-block stretch of Avenue S by 4:20 a.m. Monday:
- A garbage can cover located in the vicinity of Avenue S and Ryder Street
- A residential gate located in the vicinity of Avenue S and Ryder Street
- A traffic control box located at Avenue S and East 38th Street
- A garbage can cover located in the vicinity of Avenue S and East 37th Street
- The front door to a residential building located in the vicinity of East 35th Street and Avenue S
Brooklyn detectives said their suspect is a white man between 5-feet-6-inches and 5-feet-9-inches tall.
Anyone with information regarding the suspect or the crime spree is urged to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS. For Spanish, call 1-888-57-PISTA.
Anonymous tips can also be submitted online at the Crime stoppers website or by texting 274637, then entering TIP577.
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