2 boys charged with painting swastikas, 'Hail Hitler' graffiti at Jewish school in Lakewood

LAKEWOOD — Lakewood police arrested a pair of teenagers who they say were responsible for spray-painting swastikas and other anti-Semitic messages at the playground of a yeshiva in town last month.

Officers Dennis Dowden, Matthew Richardson and Joshua Spagnuolo were dispatched Monday to a building on Second Street on a report of trespassing, said Lt. Gregory Staffordsmith, spokesman for the Lakewood Police Department.

When they arrived, the officers found six teenagers vandalizing the building by breaking out several windows with a sledgehammer, Staffordsmith said.

Because of the proximity of that building to Yeshiva Ketana School, whose playground on Second Street was vandalized on Aug. 25, Detectives Michael Cavallo and Oscar Valmon investigated further and determined two of the teens were responsible for the swastikas and anti-Semitic graffiti at the yeshiva, Staffordsmith said.

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