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Wi-Fi helped ID Howard County teens who drew racist, anti-Semitic graffiti all over Glenelg High School

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Four teens, from left, Tyler Curtiss, Matthew Lipp, Joshua Shaffer and Seth Taylor, were sentenced to separate consecutive weekends in the Howard County Detention Center for a hate crime charge related to graffiti found at Glenelg High School in 2018 that included racial epithets and swastikas.

Four teens, from left, Tyler Curtiss, Matthew Lipp, Joshua Shaffer and Seth Taylor, were sentenced to separate consecutive weekends in the Howard County Detention Center for a hate crime charge related to graffiti found at Glenelg High School in 2018 that included racial epithets and swastikas. (Howard County Police Department/BSMG)

Four Maryland teenagers sneaked onto their school’s property the night before graduation last year and covered it in racist, homophobic and anti-Semitic graffiti.

The Washington Post described how they got caught in a Tuesday story . It says they covered their faces during the hate crime, but didn’t realize their cellphones automatically connected to Glenelg High School’s Wi-Fi under their individual student IDs. Seth Taylor, Tyler Curtiss, Joshua Shaffer and Matthew Lipp were soon arrested.

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Taylor said the teens meant to spray paint “Class of 2018” on the sidewalk as a senior prank, but things got out of hand. Sentences for the four teens ranged from eight to 18 weekends behind bars.

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