Hate-crime charges filed in anti-Semitic graffiti case in Van Nuys

A man accused of scrawling anti-Semitic graffiti outside a Jewish-owned business in Van Nuys has been charged with multiple hate crimes by Los Angeles city prosecutors.

Amos Hason 49, allegedly painted swastikas and other anti-Semitic graffiti on a fence and trash bin behind the plumbing business. Surveillance video from the site shows a man applying graffiti on two occasions.

Among the scrawlings were the words: “Adolf was right. Kill Jews!� with a swastika at the end.

“This case is a stark reminder that there is still hate in our society and we must strike back against it every time it emerges,� City Atty. Mike Feuer said in announcing the charges.

Hason was arrested over the weekend on the hate-crime allegations and additional weapons violations.

Prosecutors charged him Monday with six misdemeanor counts -- three counts of vandalism and three hate-crime counts. Hason was being held in lieu of $68,000 bail.

He could face up to three years in jail and $15,000 in fines if convicted on all six counts.

Hason was convicted in Los Angeles in 2013 of possession of a zip gun and in 2008 for possessing a deadly weapon with the intent to assault another.

He is scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday at the Van Nuys Courthouse.