Police searching for vandals who spray-painted swastikas and ‘vulgar’ language on Montco school
The two vandals can be seen entering Upper Moreland Elementary School property in a red sedan, police said.
Police are searching for two people they say spray-painted swastikas and “vulgar” language on a playground and building at a Montgomery County elementary school over the weekend.
In surveillance footage reviewed by Upper Moreland Township police, two people in a red sedan are seen entering the parking lot of the Upper Moreland Elementary School from Byberry Road at 11:50 p.m. Saturday, police said in a Facebook post. The vandals drove to the back of the school and spray-painted the building and playground equipment with swastikas and “other vulgar words and drawings,” police said.
After about 20 minutes of defacing the school property, the two got into the sedan and left the parking lot at 12:10 a.m. Sunday, police said.
The graffiti had been washed off before school started Monday morning, according to Upper Moreland School District Superintendent Susan K. Elliott’s office. In a statement, Elliott encouraged anyone with information on the vandalism to contact Upper Moreland Township police.
“The Upper Moreland School District is cooperating fully with the Upper Moreland Police Department’s investigation of the vandalism at the Upper Moreland Elementary School,” she said.
State Sen. Maria Collett (D., Montgomery), whose district includes Upper Moreland, said in a statement she was saddened to see antisemitic vandalism at the school, calling it “intolerable.”
“Let us be unequivocal: support for Nazism has been, is today, and will forever be wrong and fundamentally anti-American,” Collett said.
Police are asking for the public’s help to identify the sedan or the vandals and released a short clip of the sedan entering school property. Anyone who can help is asked to email Detective Michael Davido at mdavido@uppermoreland.org or to call 215-657-4700. Tips can be submitted anonymously at uppermorelandpd.org.