A Killed successful Action monument was vandalized successful Green Cove Springs.

A Killed successful Action monument was vandalized successful Green Cove Springs. (Courtesy of Green Cove Springs Police Department)

GREEN COVE SPRINGS, Fla. – A juvenile confessed to vandalizing a monument successful Spring Park successful Green Cove Springs that is dedicated to U.S. work members who were killed successful action, the Green Cove Springs Police Department announced Thursday.

The monument was damaged respective weeks ago, and the repairs outgo the metropolis of Green Cove Springs astir $300, the section said.

After the constabulary section posted photos of the vandalism to societal media, the juvenile confessed to striking and damaging the monument. The juvenile’s begetter is simply a seasoned himself, constabulary said, and his parents afloat cooperated with the investigation.

Because of their cooperation, which included agreeing to reimburse the metropolis for the repair costs, and the juvenile’s confession, the section opted to complaint him with misdemeanor transgression mischief alternatively of harm to a monument memorializing the dead, which is simply a felony successful Florida.

The lad volition besides beryllium trespassed from Spring Park for a twelvemonth due to the fact that helium committed a transgression successful the park, constabulary said.

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“The Green Cove Springs Police Department would similar to convey everyone who provided accusation to america erstwhile we solicited accusation from the community,” the section wrote successful a societal media post. “The GCSPD values the trusting relationships we person with assemblage members and feels that the assemblage worked arsenic a squad to lick this crime.”

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