Video shows man vandalizing Crystal Cathedral

Church officials Tuesday released video footage showing an alleged vandal whose etchings over the weekend caused nearly $40,000 damage to Garden Grove’s Crystal Cathedral.

“He just kept writing the same thing,” said Michael Nason, a spokesman for the church known internationally as home to “Hour of Power,” a popular Christian TV program. “We have no idea what it means.”

Nason said the tagger methodically scratched “B1R” into glass, granite and steel at 11 places on the church campus at 13280 Chapman Ave., including on its well-known spire.

The defacements were discovered early Monday.

The next day, he said, church officials found that security cameras had apparently captured the acts Saturday about 8:30 p.m. shortly after the church played host to a family festival.

Garden Grove police Tuesday said they were looking for a man who was described as being in his early 20s, about 5 feet 10, slight of build with dark hair and wearing tan pants and a black leather jacket.

If apprehended, the culprit or culprits would probably be charged with felony vandalism, they said.

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 david.haldane@latimes.com

Times staff writer David Kelly contributed to this report.