Man drew swastikas and devils around Miami Beach for more than a month, cops say
Miami Beach police said late Wednesday that they arrested a man who was linked to scrawling swastikas and writing words including “death” and “kill the Jews” around Miami Beach since February.
“No place for hate,” the department tweeted late Wednesday, announcing the arrest.
Sean Kenna, who according to his arrest report is homeless, was arrested and charged with seven counts of felony criminal mischief, the department said. In six of the seven, incidents, Kenna drew swastikas, police said.
The first incident Kenna was charged with dated back to Feb. 9. According to the arrest report, Kenna sprayed a swastika on the front gate of a home in the 200 block of 35th Street. Two days later, Kenna left the hateful symbol and the word “death” on a blue United States Postal service mailbox at 1000 Lincoln Rd., police said.
On March 2, police say Kenna drew a devil, a swastika and wrote the word “death” on an electrical box at the footbridge in the 2900 block of Flamingo Drive.
Then on March 6, Kenna struck twice, reports show. In one incident, a swastika and the word “death” appeared on a property in the 4000 block of Chase Avenue, police said. Then the words “kill the Jews” and a swastika was found on a sign in the 5300 block of the Boardwalk, according to an arrest report.
Kenna did not stop, police said. On March 16, he targeted an electrical box in the 5500 block of Collins Avenue. There, he drew a swastika and wrote “death,” police said.
Three day later he hit the same electrical box on the footbridge on Flamingo Drive, police said.
“After several weeks of elevated patrols and special surveillance efforts by every patrol unit in mid-Beach and North Beach as well as other specialized units, today members of our Intelligence Unit captured the suspect,” police said in a news release late Wednesday.
The department said the case will now be reviewed by the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office to determine whether Kenna will be charged with a hate crime.
This story was originally published March 20, 2019 at 10:41 PM.
