A Hayward man arrested on suspicion of at the Chapel of the Chimes cemetery last week told police he committed the crime to ward off evil spirits.
Deepak Sandhar Singh, 26, of Hayward, was arrested Friday on suspicion of felony vandalism after he admitted to police officers that he defaced the headstones with soybean oil, according to Cmdr. Ben Horner of the Union City Police Department.
The mass vandalism at Chapel of the Chimes Memorial Park, located at 33992 Mission Blvd. on the Hayward-Union City border, was reported Wednesday and was initially believed to be done with motor oil. Groundskeepers saw Singh moving flowers between the headstones at the time that the crime occurred, police said.
According to Horner, Singh told police that he purchased a two-gallon jug of soybean oil and planned to use it to ward off evil spirits. Singh believed the metal plates attached to the headstones “were evil” and needed to be purified.
Singh also left behind small plastic figures and pieces of ribbons and string at some gravesites, Horner said.
Cemetery staff were still cleaning the headstones when the arrest was reported Friday. The cleaning costs were estimated to be more than $5,000, police said.
Anyone with additional information about the crime is asked to call UCPD at 510-471-1365. Anonymous tips can also be left by calling 510-675-5207 or emailing tips@unioncity.org.
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It is the type of knee jerk attitude which you show that purpetuate acts of vandalism. Had a white man or Christian committed this type of vandalism on Sihk or Muslim graves, there would be Sikhs and Muslims in the streets demanding the perpetrators blood.
A black prostitute accuses members of a la crosse team of rape after a failed attempt to try to extort money from. The "Reverands" Jessie Jackson and Al Sharpton incited destructive demonstrations. A police chief running for office in a heavily black area arrests the atheletes. After more than a million dollars spent by the accused parents it was proven through DNA evidence that she lied. Example :Our esteemed president and the afore mentioned "reverends" calls for the arrest of George Zimmerman without knowing the fact of the incident. If the jury finds Mr. Zimmerman innocent look for cities to burn. Also, there was a case several months ago where a white teen-ager was beaten to death by two blacks. I could go on and on. Under your thinking, none of the above riots or allegations were not "hate crimes." When have you seen Jackson or Sharpton cry out for justice when the "victims" were not black? This goes on and on. Hate crimes are only committed by white men never by a minority.
The (White) idiot in Colorado didn't kill twelve people and wound dozens because he wanted to test out his guns. What he did was out of hate, not racial, but hate! All crimes committed are in some way hate crimes, be it caused by greed, envy or jealous. I never believed in the term or concepts of "hate crimes" but since you liberal bleeding hearts only use that term when it acts as a placebo to bring to the ends what you consider justifies the means, don't be selective. Again all crimes are done with some kind of hate. As far as me saying, ""Hate crimes are only committed by White men never by a minority," I was being satirical. To my knowledge I have never heard the liberals or their liberal news media report crimes by a minority against a White as a hate crime. Does that include you?
January 20, 1986 - September 22, 2012 Birth Region / Country :India Passed Away At : Hayward, , California, United States Occupation :Security Guard Funeral Service : Friday September 28, 2012, 1pm at Chapel of the Chimes Service for Deepak Sandhar will be on Friday, September 28, 2012 at 1pm here at Chapel of the Chimes, here in Hayward, California. And you guys say these things about him. If you don't bleave me here go here. http://hayward.chapelofthechimes.com/obituary/user/show/template?id=69135&print_preview=1 Let me tell you something about him. Ok here is the true story. He is mentally challenged and he has a hole in his brain. I know this because i'm his brother and i'm 13 years old He was found dead at 8-21-12 because he felt he did wrong. How can you blame a mentally challenged man you know it's just plain stupid. OK if he was your family member what would you say. So plz stop putting rude comments about him, he was a vary nice boy. He had a girlfriend and she left him and he loved her too much and he started t drink and one day comes he starts to act akward. That' when we knew he was going you know. HE never had a mother because she died giving birth to him. He has been alone his whole life soo plzzzz stop tese rude comments i beg you.