Man In Custody After Swastikas Found Painted On Gravestones

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GLEN CARBON, Ill. (AP) — Authorities in southwestern Illinois say a suspect is in custody after swastikas were found spray-painted on several homes and dozens of grave markers at a nearby cemetery.

Edwardsville police announced on Facebook that a 34-year-old man was apprehended on Saturday. Additional information on the suspect was not immediately available.

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports employees at Sunset Hill Cemetery in neighboring Glen Carbon found swastikas on 150 to 200 headstones. Cemetery grounds superintendent Mark Johnson says the vandalism was discovered Saturday morning.

Glen Carbon is roughly 15 miles (24 kilometers) northeast of St. Louis.

Edwardsville police Sgt. Justin Towell says multiple homes in a subdivision were also vandalized. He says the same person may be responsible for both incidents.

Johnson says crews were called to clean the markers ahead of Memorial Day.

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  1. I am sure Twitty will comment about “good people on both sides” any minute.

  2. For those of you who missed Hitler’s Germany, welcome to Trump’s America.

  3. If you click through you’ll see this genius marked up at least one obviously Christian grave. You’re supposed to target the Jews, you pisher. Can’t even Nazi good. And I know it’s going to be like every single last one of these losers—when we see him he’ll be this skinny, scrawny, jackalish-looking loser who looks like he never put on a shirt with a collar in his miserable life.

  4. I’m sure someone from the “intellectual dark web” could have pointed out the error, thus avoiding some embarrassment.
    Bari Weiss, you there?
    This man was triggered by libtards.

  5. Avatar for kevbo kevbo says:

    Life Imatates art: “Illinois Nazis are the worst!”

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