Police have received several complaints of swastikas and lewd pictures left at homes and businesses.
By SAUNDRA AMRHEIN
Published July 30, 2003
DADE CITY - Local police are asking the public for help finding whoever has plastered a host of businesses and homes with racist graffiti and pornographic pictures.
Racial slurs and swastikas were drawn on walls and windows of businesses, and residents found magazine pictures of naked women and white sheets of paper with racial slurs in their mailboxes, said Dade City police Capt. Linda Register.
About 20 complaints from Sunday through Tuesday have poured into the police office, Register said.
"There are probably numerous other people that had this happen to them but didn't call us," Register said.
The complaints came from businesses and homes along 10th Street, in Heather Plaza on U.S. 301 and on Camphor Drive and Bougainvilla Avenue, Register said.
Investigators are reviewing a few leads, including a surveillance video of one of the businesses, she said.
Based on the lack of a pattern in the description of the victims, Register said, the crimes might be a prank.
"I don't see a focus point there, that it appears to be directed," she said. "It just appears to be ridiculous acts of vandalism to me."
To report information, call the Dade City Police Department at (352) 521-1495.
