vandalism

Police believe a 29-year-old woman is behind three separate attempts to destroy Black Lives Matter murals in Manhattan and Brooklyn. Ken Buffa reports.

A mural honoring George Floyd in Woburn, Massachusetts, has been vandalized for the second time in less than two weeks. The tribute to Floyd, located in the Tri-Community Greenway on the Woburn-Stoneham Line, was found covered with red paint this weekend. After the painting was defaced the first time, the artist, 42-year-old Esben Rey, vowed to repaint it. The Jamaica…

Plymouth Rock was spray-painted with a message Monday as one or more vandals struck the historic site in Plymouth, Massachusetts, an act that the head of the local tourism board called “sad and unsettling.” The rock, which commemorates the 1620 arrival of the Mayflower carrying Pilgrims, was found tagged with red graffiti. The other objects found defaced by Monday morning…

Surveillance footage captured a vandal smashing the windows of a Tesla one night at the Deer Park home, and the next day more coming to the same home to wreck the lawn with ATVs. NBC New York’s reports.

Someone throwing canned goods and bottles from a neighboring building has smashed more than a dozen windows at a building in Bedford Park. NBC New York’s Gaby Acevedo reports.

At least 25 cars were damaged and destroyed on several blocks on Staten Island over the weekend. NBC New York’s Ray Villeda reports.

Two men have been charged with vandalizing an organ at a New Jersey church and attempting to steal its pipes. Freehold police say Junior B. Romero and Darwin Romero, both 35, are charged with burglary, criminal mischief, and unlawful entry of a structure. The two men, both Freehold residents, are not related, authorities said. It wasn’t known Wednesday if either…

Two men have been charged with vandalizing an organ at a New Jersey church and attempting to steal its pipes.

Law enforcement in Yorktown are looking into smashed church windows, an overturned menorah and other locations damaged in a spree of vandalism in the town being investigated as a potential hate crime. NBC New York’s Ida Siegal reports.

A public menorah was toppled and windows at two churches were destroyed in what officials are calling a “rash of vandalism” in Yorktown this weekend.  A vandal or vandals toppled the menorah at Jack DeVito Veterans’ Memorial Field & Track and broke windows at the First Presbyterian Church of Yorktown, St. Patrick’s Old Stone Church and the John C....

A public menorah was toppled and windows at two churches were destroyed in what officials are calling a “rash of vandalism” in Yorktown this weekend.

Police in Virginia say that two people have been arrested for allegedly vandalizing a Confederate monument in the city of Charlottesville. Charlottesville police spokesman Tyler Hawn said in an email that the arrests were made early Thursday morning at the statue of General Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson. Hawn did not release the individuals’ names but said more information will be released….

A Pennsylvania man accused in the recent vandalism of a Beverly Hills synagogue was arrested in Hawaii and is being charged under a hate crime enhancement, NBC News reported Wednesday, citing police.

Police are searching for a man after he allegedly vandalized a Beverly Hills Synagogue early Saturday morning. The man allegedly broke into the Nessah Synagogue where he overturned furniture, damaged relics and ransacked the inside. The synagogue’s main scrolls were not damaged during the vandalism, according to police. Police do not believe anything was stolen during the incident. Police...

A New Jersey man faces allegations he conspired to carry out spray paint vandalism attacks two months ago against synagogues in Michigan and Wisconsin.

A former professor at NYU has been arrested and charged with hate crime after he allegedly uprooted plants outside a Brooklyn church, throwing them at the door and damaging a $5,000 statue.

A 22-year-old man was arrested for allegedly vandalizing six FDNY ambulances in the Bronx, officials said.

More LinkNYC kiosks have been vandalized sometime last weekend — this time in Manhattan’s Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood.

A man allegedly hopped a locked gate and smashed a statue of Buddha in lower Manhattan, the NYPD said.

A vandal who allegedly smashed dozens of LinkNYC kiosks throughout Manhattan has been arrested, police say.