A 20-year-old man pleaded guilty Monday to a series of graffiti attacks at and near a Sikh temple in Buena Park, including a profane reference to the terrorist group ISIS that was scrawled on a truck in the parking lot.
Brodie Durazo of Buena Park pleaded guilty to vandalism of religious property and vandalism with less than $400 in damage, both misdemeanors. Another misdemeanor count of vandalism with less than $400 in damage was dropped.
The vandalism was reported Dec. 6 — four days after the mass shooting attack by a husband and wife in San Bernardino that is being investigated as an act of terrorism.
When Durazo was arrested in December, police said he admitted to vandalizing the truck, a wall in the temple’s parking lot and a building nearby at 7142 Orangethorpe Ave.
Police investigated the graffiti as a possible hate crime due to the ISIS reference on the truck, although the vandalism on the temple’s parking lot wall did not reference Islam.
Durazo is scheduled to be sentenced April 5.
— Wire reports