Bulgarian Charged with Anti-Jewish Hate Crime in US
Crime | February 5, 2010, Friday // 08:04| views
The Bulgarian spray-painted the swastikas and spread the fliers in 2007 in at least 23 locations in Brooklyn Heights, including two synagogues, authorities said. Photo by EPA/BGNES
A Bulgarian man faces 18 years in jail after pleading guilty to charges he spray-painted swastikas and distributed anti-Semitic fliers around his Brooklyn neighborhood.
Ivaylo Ivanov will be sentenced on February 25, the Bulgarian National Radio reported.
The Bulgarian spray-painted the swastikas and spread the fliers in 2007 in at least 23 locations in Brooklyn Heights, including two synagogues, authorities said.
Ivanov also pleaded guilty to possessing a secret cache of weapons discovered at his home in 2008 after he shot himself in the hand. Police found explosives, a semiautomatic handgun and ammunition.
He pleaded guilty to weapons possession and criminal mischief as a hate crime.
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