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Courtesy Friends of Red Rock Canyon
Damage is shown after vandals used spray paint on historic rock art panels at Red Rock Canyon.
Wednesday, Dec. 8, 2010 | 7:29 p.m.
Damage is shown after vandals used spray paint on historic rock art panels at Red Rock Canyon.
Sun archives
- Police: Red Rock vandalism linked to ‘Nasty Habits Crew’ gang (12-1-2010)
- Vandals hit ancient art at Red Rock (11-29-2010)
Metro Police arrested a juvenile Wednesday in connection with graffiti recently found on ancient rock art panels at Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area.
Because the suspect is a juvenile, police were not releasing more details, Metro spokesman Bill Cassell said.
The crime carries a possible five-year jail sentence and a fine up to $100,000, authorities said.
Police previously said the graffiti was associated with a local gang sometimes referred to as the “Nasty Habits Crew.”
Police said the gang identifies itself by the letters “NHC,” which also has other meanings.
The vandals use the graffiti monikers of “RODO,” “64C” and “PWE,” which can be spelled “Pee Wee,” police said.
The Red Rock art panels — varying in size from 3-by-6 feet to 8-by-9 feet — were covered with maroon spray paint. The vandalism happened in the Willow Spring/Lost Creek area, officials said.
The panels included pictographs, paintings and drawings on rock, and petroglyphs, drawings scraped and ground onto the surface of the rock. All were severely damaged, officials said.
The drawings could date back to A.D. 1000 and were probably made by prehistoric archaeological cultures that lived in the area, such as the Virgin Anasazi or the Paiute.
The Bureau of Land Management estimated the restoration will cost about $10,000. The vandalism is the most severe case in Red Rock in the past several years.
Cutoff the thumbs is what Goodman would say and I'm inclined to agree.
If I had my way this guys new gang moniker would be stubs or stumpy.
Bring back the stock and pillory days already! Yet another example of a complete lack of consequence.
Wish I was the judge he faces. 5 years sounds about right. They better not just release this turd
Its clear that there was no parental guidance, so the parents need to be charged with knowing and abetting to the delinquency of a minor and should be fine heavily. The only way that parents are going to take responsiblity for their children is start hitting them in the booket book. This crime goes beyond just destroying property, its destroy and defacing history, art work from an ancient time.
I have a feeling that the D.A. wont do much about this, all you have to do is look at his track record. But Mayor Goodman is right, I definately thing there should be some chopping off of some thumbs!
Chunky says:
He'd be happy to "rehabilitate" this young man and his friends so that they better appreciate the ancient people and their work.
These maggots of society are way beyond parental control at this point and well on their way to prison whether for this crime or another.
Whoever the Judge is that gets this case should know the eyes of Vegas are watching and expecting serious punishment. This is a great way to gain or lose votes!
That's what Chunky thinks!
I'm glad that they caught this delinquent. I hope his arrest deters anyone else who considers defacing ancient art or artifacts.
If it turns out that the individual in custody actually is responsible for this abomination, I agree that the harshest possible punishment needs to meted out. Since we don't have Sharia law here in the United States, no court is going to order the amputation of digits as punishment, as good as that may sound. I agree with Chunky, that this kid is too far gone, too imbued and indoctrinated into the gang/criminal culture to be rehabilitated. Still he needs to do the maximum sentence in a juvenile facility. Unfortunately, it will probably end up being a finishing school, he will probably end up doing more crime and more time, ultimately in state or federal prison. Even more importantly here is that the parents are held financially responsible for this. Fine them heavily and make sure that the court takes every dime of disposable income from them. Should they not comply with the court or attempt to evade payment, they need to spend some time in the slammer also. Then, publicize their punishment widely in the community, it's the only hope of getting a handle on this problem. I don't know enough about what can be done to repair the damage, someone correct me if I am wrong but I would suspect that the damage although able to be mitigated somewhat, is irreversible. That these drawings dating to 1000AD, will never be put back in their original condition after this dastardly act of vandalism.
Awesome job Metro! The sad thing is, you can't undo what that kid did. This isn't just tagging a wall, he permanently destroyed part of Nevada's history.
I agree, some digits need to be removed.
Good police work. Lets hope this stinker is certified as an adult, tried in federal court and sent to prison. This is senseless distruction of history and unforgivable!
This is a reflection of the lack of respect for historic artifacts.
What motivated this? Our education system certainly does not teach the importance or significance of early indian people. It certainly does not teach how the US committed the greatest genocide in historic killing 15 million american indians.
This crime is a crime of our culture and history. It reflects that the american dream is dead, there are no jobs, there is no future for young people.
There is no solution to this problem without taking the money back from rich people and bringing manufacuturing jobs back to the US.
This crime is only a reflection of what it really going on.
Making a wide example of this person should be done, but it should be done with the perspective of the causal and motivating factors and not just
cut off his fingers.
That is stupid and ignorant and will only motivate other poor and unemployed people to commit more violent crimes.
Why would you want to hold the parents responsible, the one that did this is the only one to be held accountable. His gang is the one who helped him do this not the parents and what if he was the award of the state who do you go after there, No he and his gang did this and those are the ones that should be punished.
If we start to go after the parents where will it stop at the grand parents the uncles and aunts maybe the brother and so on.
I don't want the the thumbs cut off I was merely being sarcastic, But how stupid can a person get that does this and they pen there name to it.
Here is an idea for a reality show take these Vandal want to be gangsters when convicted and make them clean up the tagging around town not just theirs but what ever is there and treat them like criminals don't treat them like employee's and film this and if they try to lay down and not do the work then they can go with out eating that day or sleep on the floor or something that's not harmful, no phone or TV or computer privileges.
Then the world can see that these are punks and there really isn't anything to be afraid of.
Now that they have caught "PeeWee" hopefully our DA won't play catch and release with this punk.
It is time that they make a serious example out of one of their guys.
They cost Clark County taxpayers over THIRTY MILLION DOLLARS each year. They also make our city look ghetto. Time to take a firm stand and do something about this nonsense.
We really need to start implementing stronger laws that truly detour kids from vandalizing! I say we follow the philosophy of Singapore and CANE these good-for-nothing punks! One of the few vandalism incidents in Singapore was done by an American! He was caned. I would bet he hasn't vandalized since! This country's laws are way too lenient when it comes to vandalism and graffiti. We need to step it up!
Chunky says:
Parent ARE responsible for their children and the actions of their children until they are of age or out on their own.
Maybe if parents were held strictly accountable for the actions and performance of their children from day-one, we'd have less of this kind of stuff going on. Parents need to pay attention to their kids, their actions and who they are hanging out with. You can't convince Chunky that the signs of this action were have not been written on the wall ( no pun ) in this kid's life for a while now.
Kids will be kids but an act of this nature defies immaturity or carelessness and reflects a poor upbringing, lack of respect, lack of education and a in-your-face blatant disregard for what is right from wrong. These maggots of society didn't simply have a momentary lapse of judgment.
That's what Chunky thinks and then some!
If we don't start going after the parents, we'll be commenting next month or next year, about the next atrocious act of vandalism, and the next, ad infinitum. A parent should not get a free pass to let their children run wild in the streets, vandalizing and terrorizing the community. Nip it in the bud early. There is such a thing as negligent parenting.
Chunky says:
He's glad to see that he and Mr. Iamwinkler can occasionally agree ;-}
That's what Chunky thinks!
The Death Penalty may be a little harsh, but have you ever heard of CANEING? Yeah, Caneing take these little unrespectful lossers to City Center, Televise on the City Channel so that everyone can see what will happen if they are caught destroying things that do not belong to them and tear their A**es up, in front of God and everyone. I know, I know, the liberals are crying..abuse, abuse!!!! (BUT IF I CAN SAVE JUST "ONE" CHILD) from that so called abuse, the cost of the CANE will be well priceless.
Of course you go after the parents. This turd is under legal age. He IS the responsibility of his parents. Maybe at some point these delinquent parents will get the message that they better keep an eye on the doings of their children. Hold all of them accountable. The problem is these punks are not getting the message. Let's ramp up the punishment and see if it has an effect down the line.
In my opinion, This dude should have to make big rocks into little rocks for a long time. How in the world is a parent or even the authorities at school supposed to be responsibe when they can't even realistically disipline the children anymore. Yet another product of the liberal mind set! What was once called disipline, Is now called abuse. Thank GOD the parents and teachers in my day didn't have the stupidity of the government keeping them from doing what was necessary when I was younger. But then again, Common sense used to be the norm back then. Dodgeball anyone!
Send a message and lock them up and bury them financially
Maybe they should also teach him how to spell ("chronic").
oh no,they got pee wee
Please don't send him to prison. Why would anybody want to send this P.O.S. into prison? Everybodys answer is send him to prison. So he can get three meals a day. His grocreys delivered to his door. Free cable and time to kick it with the homies. Get better medical and dental the the officers that have to put up with this trash. Keep him in the streets where he can keep doing the same things and not cost the people of Nevada as much. Just a thought since no one wants to pay for criminals to be behind bars.
Several issues I have 1st I dont agree parents shoulde be held accountabel for this. Come n if we still allowed parent to dicipline thier kids yes I do mean spank thier kids then they could have more control but saying no sweetie you can;t do that or time out does not help. 2nd no removal of digits and seriously how many people use a thumb to tag.. hello how do you hold a scpay can or hairspray i dont use my thumb. 3) these so call pictographs, paintings and drawings on rock, and petroglyphs, drawings scraped and ground onto the surface of the rocks.. let me guess back in the day that was oh yeah TAGGING.. I mean hey we can consider this a pretoglyph in like 100 years right.. I mean seriously I dont agree with the tagging but isn't that really what was originally on the rock some kid many years ago tagged on a rock and we found it now and poof its historical.. wonder if the original tagger got in trouble for doing that to the rock..
Oh no, he wrote on ROCKS!
*gasp*
We should cut his fingers off...!