Windsor Police have arrested a teenage suspect and are investigating multiple incidents of property damage.
Police say since March, several incidents of property damage have been reported in the 1100 block of Tuscarora Avenue.
They say an object was thrown at a residence in the 1100 block of Tuscarora this past Thursday, and after reviewing surveillance footage, a male suspect was identified.
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Investigators from the Morality Unit continued to investigate and police say they believe the reported property damage incidents were related and the incidents appeared to be targeted in nature.
Seth Bertrand, an 18 year old male from Windsor, is charged with three counts of mischief and two counts of prowling by night.
The Windsor Police Service Morality Unit has made an arrest in relation to their investigations into damage made in February 2021 at the W.E. Trans Support’s Community Centre in the 1400 block of Tecumseh Road East.
On Monday, February 15th, a racist symbol and an offensive homophobic word were found on the front windows.
On Saturday, February 20th, more swastikas, homophobic slurs, racial slurs, and anti-police statements were reported to have been written on the windows.
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On Monday, February 22nd, the building was once again spray painted, and a rusted brake rotor from a vehicle was thrown through the front window, shattering the glass, damaging their new floor
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When Salomon Smeer was a child in Holland, his mother gave him away to strangers in order to hide him from German invaders who were intent on arresting and deporting all Jews.
Smeer never saw his mother again. She would die in a concentration camp in Auschwitz. He would spend three years living in secret, passed around a clandestine network of households in the Dutch resistance.
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Try refreshing your browser, or Swastika appearances in community disturb Windsor Jewish Federation Back to video Salomon Smeer, a Windsor resident and Holocaust survivor, at his home on April 12, 2021. Photo by Dax Melmer /Windsor Star
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Windsor Police are seeking the public’s help on a pair of investigations that involved someone planting a Canadian flag with a swastika replacing the maple leaf on two different properties.
On April 6 at 2:15 p.m. police responded to a hate-motivated crime in the 300 block of Tecumseh Road East when the swastika flag was found on the ground at the rear of the premise.
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A day later at approximately 9 a.m., a similar flag was found planted at Hotel Dieu-Grace Healthcare in the 1400 block of Prince Road.