Goshen,
N.Y. – An Orange County grand jury has indicted a
Warwick teenager for a hate crime for vandalism at a Jewish cemetery, District
Attorney David M. Hoovler said Monday.
Eric Carbanaro, 18, was
indicted Monday on two felony counts of tampering with physical evidence and
with the felony of conspiracy as a hate crime, according to a press release
from Hoovler’s office.
The
charges stem from an investigation into the spray-painting of antisemitic
graffiti at the Beth Shalom Cemetery in the Orange County village
of Florida on Oct. 9, 2016. The village is within the town of Warwick.
The vandalism included
swastikas, the words “Heil Hitler” and Nazi “SS” symbols on walls and
headstones in the cemetery.
