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A man has been arrested and charged in connection with the spray painting of swastikas and epithets on the facade of a Rockville, Md., synagogue late last month. Montgomery County detectives arrested 28-year-old Andrew Lemond Costas, who is accused of vandalizing the Tikvat Israel Congregation, on April 9, police said in a recent release.

Authorities charged Costas with “defacing religious property, malicious destruction of property, and damaging property of a group because of the group’s religious beliefs,” according to the release. He was also charged with second-degree arson in connection with small fires set at the St. Catherine Labouré Roman Catholic Church in Wheaton earlier this month, along with another suspect, Rebecca Matathias, Montgomery County Fire Department spokesperson Pete Piringer wrote on Twitter.

The police previously released surveillance footage that showed someone driving into Tikvat Israel’s parking lot early on the morning of March 28, walking up to the synagogue, and spray painting the building. The department said they received numerous tips identifying the man in the footage as Costas, who has been released after posting a $5,000 bond.

Matathias was not charged in connection with the incident at the synagogue, but has a family member who works there, according to the Washington Post. “This is a family who has been longtime members of our synagogue,” Tikvat Israel Rabbi Marc Israel said in a statement last Sunday. “We stand with them with their pain in the situation that their daughter is involved with.”

The incident came just a few months after another local synagogue, Sixth & I, located in D.C.’s Chinatown, was vandalized with anti-semitic graffiti. Several weeks before that, a similar incident took place at Washington Hebrew Congregation, a temple in Upper Northwest.