WILDWOOD, Fla. (WFLA) — An adolescent accused of plowing by way of a cemetery and damaging a number of headstones in Florida has been arrested, NBC affiliate WESH reported.
The Wildwood Police Division mentioned round 2:36 a.m. on Wednesday, a driver ran by way of the Greenwood Cemetery, situated off Clyde Avenue in Wildwood, putting a number of tombstones.
The motive force, in a dark-colored SUV, then fled the scene. In line with WESH, police discovered elements of the SUV on the graveyard.
Detectives used surveillance video and different items of proof to trace down the automobile and teenage suspect at a house almost two miles from the cemetery, WESH reported.
“I acquired a message from my good friend, and I rushed right here as a result of my good friend mentioned, ‘Somebody has broken the graveyard, and I imagine your grandmother was one of many headstones that acquired hit.’ I used to be heartbroken,” an area resident informed WESH.
“I simply hope whoever did this actually regrets what they did, modifications their methods and comes out right here and makes it proper,” a resident with family members buried on the cemetery mentioned. “That is our dwelling cemetery right here in Wildwood, and I simply can’t imagine what went on.”
The 18-year-old suspect, whose identify was not disclosed, was arrested and charged with leaving the scene of a crash and inflicting property injury.
WESH reported that the suspect will even face three counts of felony mischief for property injury at a development website again in October and December.
