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Orange Co. teenager admits to spraying-painting anti-Semitic graffiti in cemetery

Feb 22, 2018 6:30 am

The Daily Freeman is reporting a teenager from Warwick, Orange County, admitted in court February 21, that he spray-painted swastikas and other anti-Semitic graffiti at a Jewish cemetery in the village of Florida in October 2016. Eric Carbonaro, 18, pleaded guilty in Orange County Court to the felonies of conspiracy as a hate crime and tampering with physical evidence. The graffiti, on stone walls and headstones, included swastikas, the words “Heil Hitler” and the Nazi SS symbol. District Attorney David M. Hoovler said his office will recommend a sentence “that includes incarceration. ... It is our view that this was not simply a youthful indiscretion, but rather a premeditated hate crime.” Hoovler said Carbonaro told the court his actions were driven by his beliefs about the ancestry and religion of people buried in the cemetery. Read the full story in the Daily Freeman.