By Chrystian Tejedor
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Posted May 27 2006
Boca Raton police on Friday charged a 17-year-old boy with defacing a car and a family bathroom at the Town Center mall with anti-Semitic messages on Mother's Day.
"He advised that he drew a swastika but did not write anything," Detective Juan C. Pijuan noted in the boy's arrest report.
The teenage boy, who is Jewish, was not identified by police because of his age. The boy told police that his friend, Connor T. Ranieri, 18, drew swastikas and a message that read "Burn the Jews."
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Then he drew four swastikas and the racist message, police said. Ranieri also defaced a Chrysler van owned by a florist who is not Jewish, police said.
Sheriff's detectives charged Ranieri with criminal mischief evidencing prejudice, a misdemeanor punishable by up to a year in the county jail.
Boca Raton police also plan to charge Ranieri with criminal mischief for defacing the Town Center mall bathroom and a car parked at the mall, but were unable to locate him after he was released from the county jail on his own recognizance, court documents show.
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The boy said he rushed to a bathroom in the mall after eating bad food. He or Ranieri wrote a message referencing Hitler on the bathroom wall, then used pens used to write on car windshields to sketch the swastikas and write "Burn the Jews" on the bathroom's walls, police said.
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