(CNN)One mosque had "Jesus is the Way" spray-painted across the front. Another mosque was defaced and left with a fake grenade in the driveway.
Both acts of vandalism took place in the same California city, about an hour west of where the San Bernardino terror attacktook place this month.And Hawthorne police said both incidents are now classified as hate crimes.
Early Sunday morning, Hawthorne police received a call about vandalism and a possible explosive device in front of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Baitus-Salaam Mosque, the Police Department said.
When officers arrived, they found what looked like a grenade and evacuated the area. But the object turned out to be a fake plastic grenade.
Someone had also spray-painted "Jesus" across the mosque's fence.
The same day, another mosque -- the Islamic Center of Hawthorne -- was found vandalized, with "Jesus is the Way" spray-painted on the front of the building.
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