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StumbleJuvenile sentenced for damage to Red Rock petroglyphs
Courtesy Friends of Red Rock Canyon
Damage is shown after vandals used spray paint on historic rock art panels at Red Rock Canyon.
Thursday, Aug. 11, 2011 | 4:54 p.m.
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- Stiffer penalties ahead for graffiti vandals (6-23-2011)
- Police: Ancient Red Rock art vandalized for ‘shock value’ (12-9-2010)
- Police make arrest in Red Rock vandalism case (12-8-2010)
- Police: Red Rock vandalism linked to ‘Nasty Habits Crew’ gang (12-1-2010)
- Vandals hit ancient art at Red Rock (11-29-2010)
A federal judge Wednesday sentenced a 17-year-old boy incarcerated for nine months to time served and $23,775 in restitution after he pleaded guilty in connection with damage to Native American petroglyphs and rock art panels at Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area in July 2010, the Nevada U.S. Attorney's office said.
U.S. District Judge Kent Dawson also sentenced the juvenile to nine months of supervised release and ordered the youth to follow special conditions of supervision, including avoidance of any federal lands or national monuments for the next nine months.
The petroglyphs had been damaged with spray paint in what was considered gang grafitti by law enforcement authorities.
The rock art was restored by the Bureau of Land Management.
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$23,775?? That's around 3,000 hours work in a fast food joint for this piece of dog excrement.
how about adding to his sentence
1. Spending Friday-Saturday-Sunday & all Summer Holidays working (8) hours a day picking up all the litter On Federal land recreatuiiona areas.
That would be a just sentence.
One summer season would just about do it.
The question is did this dumb ass kid learn a lesson and understand the severity of the vandalism? Or will he have a rap sheet 2 pages long by the time he is 21.
What exactly is the point of graffiti anyway? I never have understood it. Clearly it isn't art or even that good so is it all about losers seeking attention? like a spoiled child rolling on the floor in a toy store? How pathetic must you be to actually spend your time doing this nonsense? How starved for attention are these people?
What happens when "PeeWee" does not pay the $23,775 that he has been ordered to pay?
I doubt there is anyone here that believes he is going to pay that money.
I am not kidding about the following: OLD-FASHIONED PILLORIES.
These scum defile and destroy just to impress their loser, fellow-gangbangers. Since that is ALL that is important to them -- all that they can conceive of in their world -- that is the only way to get through to them; disgrace and humiliation in public. Let onlookers belittle them. Publicize in their home neighborhoods who they are and in what public space they can be seen.
PeeWee is not going to pay the fine and never will. He should be made to work and clean his mess he made or pick trash up by the hwyway all summer long as was suggested. 9 months is just a break in action for this guy, no meaning to that punishment.