Woman pleads guilty to posting Nazi propaganda at Newport Harbor High and Fullerton College

A 23-year-old Fullerton woman pleaded guilty Wednesday to posting Nazi propaganda posters at Newport Harbor High School and Fullerton College and was sentenced to 40 hours of community service.

Grace Elisabeth Ziesmer pleaded guilty to one count of vandalism and two counts of posting graffiti, all misdemeanors.

Along with the community service, Orange County Superior Court Judge Gregory Jones also placed her on a year of informal probation.

Prosecutors said in May that they declined to charge Ziesmer with a hate crime because there wasn’t enough evidence to prove the vandalism specifically targeted Jewish individuals or institutions.

Ziesmer’s attorney, Alan Castillo, declined to comment.

The defendant posted “Nazi propaganda posters” featuring “swastikas, SS mottos and other neo-Nazi statements” on light poles near Fullerton College on March 4 last year and did the same at the high school about week later, according to prosecutors.

School officials said at the time that at least 10 fliers were posted at Newport Harbor, some bearing swastikas.

Daily Pilot staff contributed to this report.

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