A South Carolina man was arrested over the weekend for defacing a Jewish Community Center with hate symbols, including the Nazi Totenkopf (death’s-head) sign.

According to charging documents, Dalton Ray Mullis, 24, of Indian Land, S.C., has been charged with a hate crime for vandalizing JCC buildings in the Foundation of Shalom Park, including the Charlotte Jewish Day School, Holocaust Memorial and “other facilities occupied by multiple organizations that operate Jewish religious, cultural and educational programs” last January.

The Justice Department alleged that Mullis affixed “threatening, antisemitic flyers,” showing “a noose, a swastika, and a Totenkopf or ‘death’s head,’ which is historically associated with the German Nazi party and SS.”

“It is further alleged that surveillance cameras on the property captured Mullis spraying one of the entrances to the CJDS with what appears to be an adhesive spray and placing the antisemitic flyer onto the door,” the DOJ said.

During the first few months of 2026, Mullis posted about his dastardly deeds on social media.

“Oops … one of our members left something at a Jewish Community Center,” he wrote beneath a photo of a swastika.

“Posting Nazi and lynching symbols on the Jewish Community Center is pure hate and it’s disgusting,” stated Russ Ferguson, U.S. attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. “This is America, which was founded on the free exercise of religion, and people ought to be free to worship without being threatened.”

The 24-year-old faces up to 20 years in prison.

The Nazi Totenkopf has made the news recently due to a tattoo of the symbol sported by one of Maine’s Senate candidates, Graham Platner, who won his state’s primary despite the tattoo and other scandals, including sexting multiple women who were not his wife. Platner has since inked over the tattoo with a Celtic symbol and denies having known the Totenkopf’s Nazi associations. However, people close to him, including his ex-girlfriend, claimed that he not only understood the significance of the tattoo but also bragged about it.