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Jury selection starts Monday in the trial of man accused of vandalizing Victoria’s only Jewish temple.
Joshua Paul Muniz, 20, is accused of painting swastikas and anti-Semitic graffiti on Temple B’Nai Israel on June 14.
Muniz is scheduled to stand trial next week.
Muniz was arrested on July 24. A Crime Stoppers tip led police to interview Muniz, and to his eventual arrest. Muniz admitted to painting two swastikas on the temple.
Nathan Burr Bowers, then 19, and a 16-year-old boy were also arrested in July as suspects in the vandalism.
In January, District Judge Robert Cheshire found there was enough evidence that Muniz vandalized the temple to revoke probation for a 2006 robbery conviction.
Jury selection starts 9 a.m. Monday in Cheshire’s courtroom.