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Anti-Semitic graffiti scrawled across site of Lake Union burglary, police say

January 11th, 2010 · No Comments

The guys at SeattleCrime.com have reported an update from police on a Lake Union burglary from the beginning of the month. According to the report, an office building in the 1600 block of Dexter Ave N that was ransacked over the New Year holiday, had holes punched in the walls and anti-Semitic graffiti scrawled into the sheet rock.

The building manager and several office tenants found the building in this condition when they arrived to work on January 2. It is not know whether there was one or multiple burglars, however at least three different officers in the building were broken into and various computer equipment, speakers, cameras, and pencils were stolen.

Police believe the burglar or burglars used a crow bar to pry open a side door and gain entry into the building. “The suspects punched a hole through the sheet rock and unlocked the door from the inside and made entry into the office[s],” Officer Robert Cierley wrote in his report.

Police found anti-Semitic graffiti carved into the sheet rock in the stairwell. “The letters SS and a swastika was left on the wall,” the report says, noting that “There were no current tenants of Jewish descent [in the] building.”

No fingerprints were found at the scene. According to the report, one of the building’s tenants told police that the building had been burglarized before, almost exactly one year ago.



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