FLORIDA – Hours after a prayer
group in Florida discovered their Islamic center had been broken into and
vandalized, police arrested a man who had a history of anti-Islamic sentiment.

The Islamic Center of Palm Beach
was discovered vandalized on Friday, with several windows smashed and blood
spattered in the prayer room.

Sharif Elhosseiny, president of
the Islamic center, said 12 windows of the main prayer room had been smashed in
and furniture had been toppled.

Later on Friday, North Palm Beach
police arrested 27-year-old Joshua Killets of West Palm Beach on suspicion of
burglary and property damage for allegedly trashing the mosque’s prayer room
and breaking the building’s windows.

Elhosseiny said nothing was taken
from the mosque, but that he considered the incident a hate crime.

Police released photos from a
surveillance video that show a man dressed in all white clothes and a white
Miami Heat ball cap at the mosque early Friday morning, according to the Palm
Beach Post.

When he broke into the building,
he turned over furniture, smashed windows and destroyed shutters, according to
police.

It is not clear if North Beach
police are treating the incident as a hate crime, but a review of Killets’s
Facebook profile shows some possible anti-Muslim sentiment.

In one post, he is pictured
holding a rifle. The caption reads, “That AR -15 will put down any radical
Islamic!! I wish they would!!!”

Killets is currently being held
on $1,500 bail at the city’s Main Detention Center, according to jail records.