Nazi-Style Newspapers Are Placed in Mailboxes : Racism: Investigators believe Cypress incidents were perpetrated by the people who put white supremacist flyers in student lockers at Los Alamitos High School.

Nazi-styled newspapers were placed in the mailboxes of a condominium complex for the second time, a police official said Wednesday.

The newspapers were found by more than 30 residents on Sunday morning. On the previous weekend, a similar number of newspapers were found on the other side of the complex, police said.

Their contents include racial epithets directed at blacks and Jews and literature on the white supremacist movement.

Cypress Police Lt. Jim Weuve, said investigators believe that the same people may be responsible for vandalism on the Los Alamitos High School campus during the same period. In two incidents, Nazi-type racist flyers and newspapers published in Lincoln, Neb., were found in student lockers.

“Our investigators have contacted the Los Alamitos Police Department to compare notes and see if there is any similarity between the two incidents at the condo complex and the incidents at Los Alamitos High School,” Weuve said. “What they did at the complex is a federal offense, and it has been reported to the postal authorities.”

Postal Inspector Pamela Prince said anyone tampering with a mailbox is committing a federal crime and could face up to five years in federal prison.

“If a person is caught trying to avoid paying postage then they could pay up to $300 per piece,” Prince said. “Someone caught taking something out of a mailbox could be fined $2,000 per piece and sent to jail for five years.”

Patricia Mickle, a resident of the Cypress condominium complex, said she discovered the newspaper in the mailbox and was shocked by the content.

“During World War II when I was 9 years old, I used to live in Wales and I could see the bombs dropping on Liverpool across the Mersey River,” Mickle said. “The things that are happening over in Germany scare me. To think it could be happening again is terrible.”

Another resident, Katherine Holt, said she came across similar newspapers on the East Coast more than 40 years ago and wished it would stop.

“It’s a bunch of trash and the public should know what is going on. We shouldn’t bury our heads in the sand,” said Holt, a former federal personnel investigator.

Bob Fox, president of the homeowners association, said it was the first time since the complex was built that a Nazi newspaper or any hate-type literature was found on the premises. He added that many people called to complain.

“The people here were very indignant about the whole affair,” Fox said. “The newspapers found here in the last two weeks are not the sort of thing that people cozy up to.”