Man Arrested, Charged For Writing Anti-Semitic Graffiti: Police

EAST MEADOW, NY — A 23-year-old man was arrested in connection to anti-Semitic graffiti scrawled on PVC fencing in East Meadow.

Sebastian Patino Caceres, 23, of East Meadow, is charged with seven counts of third-degree criminal mischief and seven counts of making graffiti.

Caceres is accused of writing remarks that include "Free Palestine" "Stop the Genocide" and "Zionism is Nazism."

The Nassau County District Attorney's office is expected to treat it as a hate crime, Town of Hempstead Supervisor Don Clavin told Patch on Monday.

"Residents were outraged [by] this attack on them," Clavin said.

Caceres was scheduled to be arraigned on Tuesday at First District Court in Hempstead.

"[Donnelly] is going to prosecute these people and how them accountable to the full extent of the law," Clavin said.