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John Williams, 30, was arrested Sunday and booked at the Ventura County Jail on suspicion of vandalism, a hate crime and a parole violation after officers connected him to at least five reports of spray-painted swastikas, according to the Ventura Police Department.

He was booked on four counts of felony vandalism, one count of misdemeanor vandalism, one count of misdemeanor hate crime, one felony count of violating parole and one misdemeanor count of being in possession of a stun gun with a prior felony conviction, according to the inmate log.

A man has been charged following an assault which police are treating as racially motivated hate crime.

Anti-Semitic hate crimes have increased by 113% in the last year, and anti-Muslim hate crime has risen by 13%, according to police figures quoted by the Home Office.

Jesse, the play’s Jewish character who is the victim of a hate crime, would not be at all surprised.