A man was arrested Monday after deputies responded to a report of vandalism at the more than 150-year-old Home of Peace Memorial Park in East Los Angeles, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department told NBC4 Investigates.
Deputies responded Monday afternoon to the historic cemetery on Whittier Boulevard, where several high-profile celebrities are interred. Deputies located the man and discovered a damaged wrought-iron fence at the cemetery on Whittier Boulevard.
The initial call indicated damage to headstones, but deputies found no evidence of damage to grave markers or any of the many historic buildings on the property
The man was arrested on suspicion of felony vandalism of a place of worship. He was cited and released, according to jail records.
Home of Peace is the oldest Jewish cemetery in the Los Angeles area. In the early 1900s, horse-drawn wagons were used to relocate the deceased after the original Chavez Ravine site of the Hebrew Benevolent Society’s sacred burial grounds filled to capacity.
Among those interred at Home of Peace are Curly Howard (Jerome Howard) and Shemp Howard of “The Three Stooges” slapstick comedy act, Universal Pictures founder Carl Laemmle, his niece actor and dancer Carla Laemmle, and MGM co-founder Louis B. Mayer.