FBI Chelan
Police say someone defaced a family's car with racial and religious slurs over the Labor Day weekend in Chelan. (FBI Seattle)

FBI investigating hate crime in Chelan

BY Chris Sullivan  on October 19, 2012 @ 10:45 am (Updated: 1:05 pm - 10/19/12 )

A potential hate crime is under investigation by the FBI in Chelan.

Someone defaced a family's car with racial and religious slurs over the Labor Day weekend. It happened in a parking lot near the intersection of Waterslide Drive and Woodin Avenue. The crime happened Sept. 1 between 5:30 p.m. and 7:45 p.m.

"To the FBI, we take something like this that's a potential hate crime very seriously," Ayn Dietrich in the FBI Seattle office said.

Anyone with information about this crime is asked to call the FBI at 206-622-0460.

Chris Sullivan, KIRO Radio Reporter
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