05-02-2010 / United States
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USA - Ivaylo Ivanov charged with Anti-Jewish hate crime
Ivaylo Ivanov
Ivaylo Ivanov faces 18 years in jail after pleading guilty to charges he spray-painted swastikas and distributed antisemitic fliers around his Brooklyn neighborhood.
Ivaylo Ivanov spray-painted the swastikas and spread the fliers in 2007 in at least 23 locations in Brooklyn Heights, including two synagogues.
Ivanov also pleaded guilty to possessing a secret cache of weapons discovered at his home in 2008 after he shot himself in the hand. Police found explosives, a semiautomatic handgun and ammunition.
He pleaded guilty to weapons possession and criminal mischief as a hate crime.
Source: http://www.novinite.com/
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