A 23-year-old man has been charged with spray-painting anti-Semitic graffiti on an Olney synagogue, Montgomery County Police said.
On July 24, someone painted hateful symbols and slogans at B’Nai Shalom of Olney, at 18401 Burtfield Drive, police said.
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The anti-Semitic phrases included German phrases used by Nazis and references to a sign that hangs over the Auschwitz concentration camp. Police said the suspect scattered loose change near the synagogue entrance as a possible anti-Semitic act, and spray-painted swastikas on nearby properties.
Ian Jacob Baron, 23, formerly of Olney, was arrested Wednesday and charged with malicious destruction of property and defacing religious property.
— Scott McCabe
