Member of White Supremacist group and teen accomplice charged with defacing Plandome, NY Synagogue

[Ian David]

Two charged with defacing synagogue

By The Associated Press
Sunday, September 2, 2007 10:55 PM EDT

PLANDOME - A member of a white supremacist group and a teenage accomplice were arrested on charges of scrawling swastikas and other anti-Semitic graffiti on the side of a synagogue and on a school bus, a school and a house, police said Sunday.

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Swastikas and Jewish slurs scrawled in red spray paint were found Saturday on the Reconstructionist Synagogue of the North Shore in Plandome, on a school bus parked at Roslyn High School and on a Roslyn Estates home, police said.

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Police on Saturday arrested John Rocissano, 20, and Matthew Felicetti, 17, in all four incidents. Rocissano, of Manhasset, and Felicetti, of Floral Park, were to be arraigned Sunday on several counts of aggravated harassment and criminal mischief.

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Rocissano admitted being a member of the National Alliance, a white supremacist group that has been in decline since the 2002 death of its founder, William Pierce, said Detective Sgt. Gary Shapiro, of the Nassau County police bias crimes unit.


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See also:

Two arrested in graffiti attack on Long Island synagogue
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Sunday, September 2nd 2007, 6:21 PM
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime_file/2007/09/02/2007-09-02_two_arrested_in_graffiti_attack_on_long_.html

[cali]

1. Ugh. The National Alliance.

What a bunch of vile little creeps.