Los Angeles County prosecutors have charged a 34-year-old man with defacing a synagogue and threatening a man.
Cameron Brunson Blake is expected to be arraigned Friday on one count each of vandalism of religious property, which is a hate crime, and criminal threats.
Custody records show Blake is jailed, and it’s unclear if he has an attorney. Prosecutors are recommending bail be set at $1 million.
The district attorney’s office says Blake is accused of carving an anti-Semitic slur into the door of a synagogue on Aug. 10. Two days later he allegedly hurled an epithet at a man and his infant daughter in Palisades Park and threatened to injure or kill the man.
The charges carry a possible maximum sentence of six years and eight months in prison.
Associated Press
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on August 31, 2019. Read the original PDF.