A man is accused of putting up neo-Nazi stickers at a Massachusetts university parking lot this month, prosecutors said Monday, after he appeared in court.
Michael Beaudry, a 32-year-old from Bridgewater, was identified as a man seen on surveillance footage putting up several propaganda stickers on two locations at Bridgewater State University on the morning of Saturday, March 1, the Plymouth County District Attorney's Office said. The footage shows the person giving a Nazi salute after putting up one of the stickers.
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Beadury pleaded not guilty to charges of vandalizing and tagging property during a court hearing in Brockton District Court Monday. It wasn't immediately clear if he had an attorney who could speak to the charges.
The stickers were reported last Monday after being found on or near a bus stop on Railroad Drive and other places nearby, including a parking lot on Spring Street, prosecutors said. State, local and university police began looking into who put them there.
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A review of surveillance cameras showed a person in a white pickup truck get out about 7:36 a.m. on March 1 and put stickers on a bus stop, then take a picture with his cellphone. That footage also captured the Nazi salute, according to prosecutors.
After Beaudry was identified as the driver of the truck, investigators obtained a search warrant for his truck, where, on Friday, they found white nationalist and antisemitic stickers, prosecutors said. They allegedly also found more Neo-Nazi and white nationalist stickers on him, as well as a Hitler Youth knife that had a swastika on its handle, and he was allegedly wearing the same distinctive cap, jacket and boots as seen in the surveillance footage.
Beaudry was held on $2,500 bail and ordered to, upon release, surrender all firearms, wear a GPS bracelet and have no contact with Bridgewater State University. He's due back in court April 1.
