A Eugene, Oregon, man pleaded guilty in federal court on Tuesday to three hate crimes after he defaced a synagogue in his hometown on multiple occasions, according to the Department of Justice (DOJ).
The DOJ said in a press release the 34-year-old Adam Edward Braun pleaded guilty to two counts of intentionally defacing a synagogue and a single count of attempting to intentionally damage a synagogue simply because it was a place for Jewish people to worship.
Braun, according to court documents and statements made in court, intentionally targeted Temple Beth Israel in Eugene twice with antisemitic graffiti.
In one incident, the DOJ said, Braun targeted the synagogue between Sept. 10 and 11, and spray-painted the numbers “1377” on the outside of the building.
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He admitted to selecting the numbers because it was similar to “1488,” a white-supremacist slogan referencing Adolf Hitler …