On this date in 1998 in Los Angeles, California, Justin Nicholas Bertone, 19, of Sunland and Jeffrey Allen Campbell, 28, of Burbank, were charged with eleven counts of making a false bomb report, ten counts of sending a false bomb, one count of shooting at an inhabited dwelling, one count of shooting at an unoccupied vehicle, one count of possession for sale of methamphetamine and one count of possession for sale marijuana. Said by authorities to be connected with the white supremacist group, White Criminals on Dope, and the southern California skinhead group, the Peckerwoods, Bertone and Campbell stood accused of placing fake bombs to intimidate minority residents and business owners into leaving Hollywood, California, as well as the San Fernando Valley. On April 22, 1998, Bertone and Campbell both pleaded no contest. Campbell was handed a 15-year prison sentence and Bertone was given a seven-year prison sentence.

In Franklin, Massachusetts on this date in 2007, John Wallace, 50, turned himself in and was arrested for allegedly defacing the apartment door of his neighbor, Paul King, with a spray-painted swastika, and the word “jail” on January 4, 2007. Mr. King’s ex-wife is Jewish. Wallace was charged with defacing property, damaging property with the intent to intimidate, and civil rights violation—a hate crime. The case will be heard out of the Wrentham (Massachusetts) District Court, and Wallace has a pre-trial hearing scheduled for July 10, 2008. (See also June 5 for a related case involving Wallace and Mr. King).