re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict

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A woman charged with spray painting anti-Semitic graffiti on a Royal Oak synagogue no longer wishes to represent herself in court and asked for a court-appointed attorney.

That’s what suspect Randi Lucile Nord, 35, of Clinton Township told Royal Oak 44th District Judge Derek Meinecke during a brief hearing Friday.

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The suspect is accused in Royal Oak of spray painting a swastika and the word “Azov” on the front of the Woodward Avenue Shul, 25595 Woodward Ave.

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When Nord was arraigned on charges in Royal Oak on May 3, police said she spent two years in Serbia, where she apparently had become radicalized, and returned to the U.S. in early March.

She confessed to the crimes at the synagogue in Royal Oak, police said, and further told them she also painted a swastika on a child’s stroller and on a car at a synagogue in Oak Park. As of Friday no charges had been filed against her in Oak Park’s 45th District Court.

“She said she planned to do as many hate crimes as possible and blame them on Azov,” Royal Oak Detective Dan Pelletier testified at Nord’s arraignment in Royal Oak.

The purpose of the hate crimes was aimed at undermining the U.S. support for Ukraine after the country was invaded by Russia.

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