FORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) - Police in northern Colorado are investigating vandalism at a Masonic Temple as a possible hate crime, days after someone vandalized a mosque in the same city.
Authorities in Fort Collins say someone painted upside-down crosses and the words “great tribulation is at hand” on the exterior of the Masonic Temple on Sunday or Monday.
Police asked for the public’s help in finding whoever was responsible.
On March 26, someone broke glass doors and threw a Bible into the Islamic Center in Fort Collins.
Thirty-five-year-old Joseph Giaquinto was arrested and charged with criminal mischief and a hate crime in that incident. The Fort Collins Coloradoan reports (https://noconow.co/2nVamCV ) he was re-arrested Tuesday when he missed a court appearance.
Fort Collins is about 60 miles (96 kilometers) north of Denver.
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