Brooklyn, NY – The man who had gathered an arsenal of pipe bombs and weapons in a Brooklyn Heights brownstone apartment, as was reported first on VIN News, has admitted to painting a series of swastikas in the neighborhood.
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Ivaylo Ivanov, 37, who is Jewish, according to his lawyer, was taken into police custody after he accidentally shot off the tip of his finger, he was charged after police discovered firearms and bomb-making equipment along with pipe bombs in his attic apartment.
He at first told police officers on patrol in the neighborhood that he had been shot by someone else, and then admitted shooting himself, prompting officers to check his apartment.
He later confessed to spraying 19 swastikas on Remsen Street, where he lived, in September.
The swastikas were found on the steps of two synagogues along with leaflets, carrying swastikas and anti-Semitic slurs, found under the windshield wipers of cars along the block. [NY Sun – Vin News]