Carbonaro and some of the
damage he admitted causing
GOSHEN – A Warwick man pled guilty in Orange County Court on Wednesday in connection with the desecration of a Jewish cemetery in the Town of Warwick in the overnight hours of October 8 into the early morning hours of October 9, 2016.
Eric Carbonaro, 18, entered the guilty plea before Judge Craig Stephen Brown to the felony charges of tampering with physical evidence and conspiracy as a hate crime.
“He admitted that he conspired to go to a cemetery and desecrate the graves based solely on the belief that the people buried there were of the Jewish religion,” said District Attorney David Hoovler. “It was a pre-meditated act on his part and a pre-meditated act in asking other people to destroy evidence that would basically hinder the investigation.”
Spray-painted on the entry walls and tombstones at Beth Shalom Cemetery were swastikas and other anti-Semitic Nazi symbols and words.
Carbonaro faces up to six months in the Orange County Jail and five years of probation.
