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UConn student Kristopher Pieper, 21, of Enfield. (UConn Police Department)
STORRS, CT A University of Connecticut student and Enfield resident was arrested Thursday on a warrant accusing him of spray-painting an anti-Semitic swastika on the college s chemistry building last month, according to the UConn Police Department.
Kristopher Pieper, 21, a junior majoring in anthropology and geographic information science, was charged with third-degree intimidation based on bigotry or bias, and third-degree criminal mischief.
On March 27 - the start of the Jewish holiday Passover - a graduate student walking on campus told UConn police she had seen a swastika on the chemistry building, directly across the street from the Hillel House, a foundation center for the Jewish community on campus. A second swastika was later discovered on a retaining wall of the Austin Building, less than 300 yards from the chemistry building, according to an affidav
A 21-year-old UConn student was arrested Thursday and charged with a hate crime one month after a swastika was found spray-painted on the side of a chemistry building on campus during Passover and directly across the street from UConn Hillel.
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