Sacramento police arrest suspect on suspicion of ‘bias-motivated’ use of swastikas
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- Sacramento police arrested 19-year-old Feyd Pounds on a hate crime charge.
- Pounds faces a felony terrorizing charge for placing a symbol on private property.
- Investigators deemed two July 2025 swastika vandalism incidents bias-motivated.
Sacramento police arrested a 19-year-old Sacramento man Tuesday who allegedly used swastikas to intimidate and terrorize people, authorities said Wednesday.
The man, Feyd Hayden Pounds, is being held on $100,000 bail at the Sacramento County Main Jail on suspicion of a felony hate crime charge of terrorizing by placing a symbol on private property and a misdemeanor charge of interfering with civil rights through threats or force, according to jail logs.
Jail logs show police took Pounds into custody Tuesday on an arrest warrant.
In July 2025, police received reports of two vandalism incidents involving swastikas in the 4600 block of U Street in Elmhurst, near the UC Davis Medical Center, the Sacramento Police Department said in a news release Wednesday.
Investigators determined the acts of vandalism were “bias-motivated” and later located Pounds, who had made “repeated” antisemitic statements on social media, the release said. Pounds also directly referenced involvement in the vandalism incidents in Elmhurst, police said.
Pounds is scheduled to be arraigned at 1:30 p.m. Thursday, according to Sacramento Superior Court logs.
