James Is. residents find fliers

Neo-Nazi fliers that upset residents of a Hanahan neighborhood also were left in driveways on James Island.

Last week, residents of Oak Island Drive, a neighborhood off Folly Road near the beach, found them wrapped inside free real-estate magazines that can be picked up in stores.

Kristina Walle said she found a flier outside her house and saw similar ones around the neighborhood. The one she got was from the National Socialist Movement, a white supremacist group based in Detroit. It said something about joining the fight against non-white races and had a swastika on it, she said.

"I couldn't believe it, to see a swastika," she said. "Who would do something like that? I just got appalled."

Hanahan residents on Dominion Drive found similar fliers in their driveways Sunday morning. Those fliers also were from the National Socialist Movement. Police got involved when a resident complained.

The fliers were left in various free newspapers that are commonly available, Hanahan Police Lt. Michael Fowler said. He didn't think any laws were broken, since other free newspapers are commonly left in driveways.

But police were trying to get a fingerprint off the flier to talk with the person who did it, he said. Those tests were not finished as of Tuesday afternoon, Fowler said.

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