UNION TOWN -- A 26-year-old Hayward guy is dealing with greater than a dozen criminal vandalism fees after he admitted slathering ONE HUNDRED FIFTY headstones at a Union Town cemetery with vegetable oil -- an act he instructed government was supposed to push back evil spirits.

The Alameda County District Attorney's Place of business charged Deepak Sandhar Singh on Friday with 15 counts of legal vandalism for defacing the grave markers on the Chapel of the Chimes Memorial Park at 32992 Venture Blvd. at the Union City-Hayward border.

Singh instructed police he purchased a two-gallon jug of soybean oil from a neighborhood marketplace and used it at the steel plates at the headstones as a result of they "have been evil" and had to be purified with oil, police stated.

Singh additionally left small plastic figures, items of string and ribbons at a few grave websites and was noticed by grounds keepers shifting vegetation among headstones. The broken headstones have been came upon Thursday by cemetery employees.

Singh was arrested Friday and brought to Santa Rita Prison in Dublin, the place he published bail, in line with jail's website online.

Chapel of the Chimes Normal Supervisor Harry Blakeman mentioned final week that the headstones had been all wiped clean on Friday. Freshen up prices had been envisioned at $5,000, police stated.

Blakeman was now not straight away to be had Monday to touch upon the prison charges, however mentioned ultimate week that it was the one time the cemetery were vandalized in recent times. In February, thieves stole copper

and brass flower holders from greater than 500 graves on the Cypress Garden Memorial Park in Colma, most likely to recycle them for money.

Anyone with knowledge at the vandalism at Chapel of the Chimes will have to name the Union Town Police Division at 510-471-1365 or depart an nameless tip at 510-675-5207 or tips@unioncity.org.

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