Vandalism

SLC man accused of chopping power poles for scrap

SALT LAKE CITY -- A man is in jail after Salt Lake City police say they caught him cutting down 40-foot-tall aluminum light poles in an apparent effort to get quick cash.

Sheriff’s captain resigns after vandalism charges

PRICE — A captain in the Carbon County Sheriff’s Office is resigning because of charges that he vandalized three cars at an auto dealership.

Photo courtesy of Alex Salvo
Vandals damaged three school buses at St. Joseph Catholic High School over the weekend.

Vandals strike St. Joseph Catholic High School buses

OGDEN -- About 60 St. Joseph Catholic High School students had to find their own transportation to classes Monday after three of the school's buses were vandalized.

Vandals damaged three school buses at St. Joseph High School over the weekend. (Photo courtesy of Alex Salvo)

Buses vandalized at St. Joseph High School

OGDEN — About 60 students who attend St. Joseph Catholic High School had to find their own transportation to classes Monday after three of the school’s buses were vandalized.

Reward offered for Crystal Cave vandals in Box Elder

BRIGHAM CITY -- The Bureau of Land Management and the Utah Cave Conservancy are offering a $1,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the perpetrators of a recent break-in at Crystal Cave in Box Elder County.

SLC police count 133 broken window reports in 1 night

SALT LAKE CITY -- Salt Lake valley police say they're investigating after 133 cases of broken car windows were reported in a single night.

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A dozen cars vandalized in West Haven

WEST HAVEN -- The Weber County Sheriff's Office is investigating the vandalism of about a dozen cars in West Haven and Hooper early Saturday.

A Palestinian boy looks at graffiti sprayed on his house in the West Bank village of El-Jinya near Ramallah, Sunday, Feb. 5, 2012. Palestinians say extremist Jews have scrawled their home in a West Bank village with offensive graffiti in retaliation for an upcoming demolition of a wildcat Jewish outpost. The graffiti seen in the picture reads in Hebrew:" Death to the Arabs", "Closed military Zone" and names of Jewish settlements in the West Bank. (AP Photo/Nasser Shiyoukhi)

Vandals attack Jerusalem monastery, school

JERUSALEM -- Vandals attacked a monastery in Jerusalem and a prominent school with a mixed Jewish-Arab student body on Tuesday, and police said they suspected Jewish extremists were behind the violence.

Suspects in Fruit Heights vandalism sought

FRUIT HEIGHTS -- Davis County Sheriff deputies are looking for whoever went on a vandalism spree in Fruit Heights.

Police: Threatening graffiti not connected to Roy High bomb plot

ROY — Threatening graffiti found last year at Roy High and Roy Junior High schools are likely unrelated to a recent Roy High bomb plot, authorities said Monday.

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Suspected tagger not likely to land graphic design job

OGDEN -- Next time, he may want to try using a resume.

Kenneth Nereim, 27, at Ogden High School was found by an Ogden police officer next to a fresh graffiti-tagged wall and holding a can of spray paint around 3 a.m. Saturday, according to a post on the police department's Facebook page.

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Police nab 3 in BB gun vandalism spree

CLINTON — Three men arrested for vandalism say they can’t remember every city they drove through as they used BB guns and airsoft guns to destroy approximately 100 car windows, causing damage estimated at $200,000.

Police seeking vandal(s) in car window shooting episodes

Nearly 60 residents in two Top of Utah cities have found their car windows destroyed this week, as police try to discover if the same person or group is responsible for all the damage.

Church gay nativity scene vandalized

CLAREMONT, Calif. -- An unusual nativity display at a Claremont church that conveyed a gay couple was vandalized over the weekend in an incident authorities are investigating as a hate crime.

UDOT looks to combat freeway vandalism

LAYTON -- The Utah Department of Transportation hopes new signs on Interstate 15 will end a decade's old headache for them.

Starting in Salt Lake County and working their way north, UDOT crews will begin to repair the I-15 lighting system where vandals have damaged it or stolen valuable components. In most cases, thieves have gone after the copper wire in those lighting fixtures.

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