A 29-year-old Vaughan man has been charged in several hate crime incidents in Vaughan, according to York Regional Police.

The first incident happened on June 26 when anti-Semitic graffiti was found in a Vaughan coffee shop.

Nearly two weeks later, police got another call about religious slurs made against a family.

That same day, another victim came forward and reported four more incidents that took place between December 2013 and June 2014.

Yaeer Katz was arrested on Aug. 10 and charged with two counts of criminal harassment and one count of mischief in relation to these incidents.

In July, messages of hate were spray-painted on the sidewalk in front of a Thornhill mosque. Three days later a large swastika was found spray-painted on a Thornhill bus shelter less than three kilometres away.

Those incidents happened shortly after Israel launched a ground invasion of the Gaza Strip in July.

Police were unable to confirm whether these two incidents were connected to earlier hate-crimes, however the time frame suggests they were carried out by someone else.

Katz is scheduled to appear in court in Newmarket on Aug. 28.

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