Brodie Durazow ill be arraigned on Feb. 8.
AB Wire
A 21-year-old man, Brodie Durazo, of Buena Park, accused of vandalizing a Sikh temple property in Buena Park, California, in December, will be arraigned next month, prosecutors said.
Durazo has been charged with one felony count of vandalism of a religious property and two misdemeanor counts each of vandalism under $400, according to the Orange County district attorney’s office, reported the Los Angeles Times.
Durazo turned himself in Monday and was released on $20,000 bail, the district attorney’s office said. Gang graffiti was found scribbled on the exterior of the Sikh Center on Dec. 6, while an expletive and the word “ISIS” were also found scrawled on a tractor trailer that was parked at the temple, according to the Sikh Coalition, the report said.
The vandalism prompted an increase in police patrols near the religious center and sparked fear among members of the Sikh community.
“We believe that the Gurdwara Singh Sabha was vandalized because it is a Sikh house of worship,” the coalition’s attorney Gurjot Kaur said in a statement at the time. “We call on local and federal agencies to investigate this vandalism as a hate crime and request increased law enforcement security at the gurdwara immediately.â€
Durazo is accused of spray-painting graffiti throughout a trailer park where he lives in Orangethorpe Avenue on Dec. 6 and of then going into the property of the Gurdwara Singh Sabha Temple and spray-painting graffiti on a dividing wall between the trailer park and the temple.
Durazo is scheduled to be arraigned Feb. 8. If convicted, prosecutors said, he could face a maximum sentence of three years in state prison, the Times reported.
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These ignorant Americans should KNOW, Sikhs might have beards but they are NOT MUSLIMS! Sikh is a peace loving community that is non violent and devoted to well being of humanity in toto! I think, Sikhs should start educating Americans how they differ from Muslims now!and display big banners in frontof every Gurudwara!