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.