Police get no leads in swastika case

Over a week after a Smith Hall resident discovered a swastika sketched on her door's message board, investigators have uncovered no new leads in the case. "It's still an open file with us," Hanover Police Chief Nick Giaccone said. The message board in question was not confiscated by police as evidence because, according to Giaccone, "The officer felt it was not necessary." If a suspect is eventually arrested, a likely charge would be criminal mischief, a class A misdemeanor which carries a fine of up to $2000. In the 1999 incident in which Peter Cataldo wrote "Kill Kosher Kikes" and other anti-Semitic message on a fellow student's marker board, the underlying charge investigators considered was a criminal threat. The charge Cataldo could have faced carries the same penalty as criminal mischief.