SoCal neighborhood targeted with disturbing Christmas cards left on doorsteps by masked men

YUCAIPA, Calif. (KABC-TV) -- A disturbing transportation has residents successful 1 Southern California vicinity connected edge, and constabulary are moving to find retired who sent the missives.

On Monday, information footage from 1 location successful the San Bernardino County metropolis of Yucaipa captured a masked antheral placing a missive adjacent the beforehand doorway earlier blowing a buss toward the camera and walking away. Several homes successful the country received akin late-night deliveries.

Residents said the letters were Christmas cards but contained messages they described arsenic vulgar, menacing and, astatine times, threatening.

"They were successful Christmas cards, but each of the worldly that they were putting successful it were worldly you person been proceeding for Antifa," said nonmigratory Scott Ungar.

Ungar said each paper contained a antithetic message. One card, helium said, included a circumstantial day on with a warning.

"The 1 implicit determination said a day and they said, 'You've been warned,' similar they were informing thing is going to hap connected a circumstantial date," helium said.

One thoroughfare over, different resident, Jaret McComas, recovered a paper addressed not to him, but to Santa.

"Picked it up, opened it, and it said, 'Dear Santa, I privation the caput of a Nazi nether my histrion for Christmas,'" McComas said. "I was like, 'That is simply a small weird.'"

McComas said neither helium nor his neighbors who received the cards show governmental signs oregon affiliations. The randomness of the homes targeted has near residents unsettled.

"I americium truthful confused by that," McComas said. "I americium not a dense conservative. I'm gay, engaged to my fiancé Roger. So, it's conscionable benignant of concerning for maine due to the fact that I americium like, 'What did I do?'"

He said helium wondered whether the American emblem extracurricular his location mightiness person drawn attention, but noted that not each targeted location had one, deepening the mystery.

Concerned residents contacted the Yucaipa Police Department. According to neighbors, constabulary reviewed information footage and determined that 2 masked individuals were progressive successful delivering the letters.

"When you person radical roaming your vicinity successful achromatic look masks, leaving convulsive notes and warnings, it's benignant of disturbing," said Ungar.

The San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department, which makes up the Yucaipa Police Department, said it has accrued patrols successful the neighborhood.

Residents person besides said they volition beryllium adding much cameras and information to their homes.