Cops probe swastika hate crime in Oceanside

Detectives are looking for whoever scratched a swastika into a car parked at an Oceanside school, Nassau police said Tuesday.

The criminal mischief incident is being treated as a bias crime, and it happened 7:30 a.m. Monday at the Oceanside School #5 on Oceanside Road, police said.

The victim parked her 2004 Honda in the school lot when she arrived for work and she later found a 3-by-5 inch swastika on the left rear door, police said.

Detectives ask anyone with information to call Nassau County Crime Stoppers at 800-244-TIPS.