Jewish Man Caught Spray Painting Swastikas & Making anti-Semitic Threatening Phone Calls

The NYPD Hate Crime Task Force on Monday arrested a man in connection with a series of anti-Semitic threats and vandalism in Manhattan and Brooklyn. Police charged David Haddad, 56, of Manhattan, with aggravated harassment as a hate crime. Sources told Fox 5's Lisa Evers that Haddad is himself Jewish and is related to one victims and knows another. The NYPD has connected Haddad to four incidents: threatening phone calls made to an 80-year-old woman in Brooklyn on December 11, 2011; anti-Semitic symbols and statements scrawled on five apartment doors and a threatening phone received in a building in Manhattan on January 10, 2012; a threatening phone call made to an 87-year-old woman in Manhattan on January 11; and a threatening voice mail message left for a 78-year-old woman in Brooklyn on January 1, authorities said. Sources said he is also the prime suspect in a rash of Swastika incidents and a phone threat over the weekend in Midwood. Follow the story here - Thanks to