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"I didn't vandalize anything," Hearn told The Washington Post last month.

From Barron's ● Jul. 31, 2026

Investigators believe he planned to vandalize Our Lady of Mount Carmel, a Catholic church across the street, in the same manner.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2023

Last school year, several schools closed bathrooms because of a TikTok trend that encouraged students to vandalize and steal paper towel dispensers and fire alarms.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 26, 2023

Mr. Jordan said he believes the Department of Justice has the ability to prosecute people who vandalize crisis pregnancy centers.

From Washington Times ● Jan. 11, 2023

“And yes, if they’re going to go through all the hassle to vandalize one of my books, you’d think they’d check their spelling.”

From "The Parker Inheritance" by Varian Johnson

The bill upgrades the charge from a misdemeanor to a felony if someone vandalizes “any public monument or structure on public property.”

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 1, 2021

In another tweet Tuesday, Trump said anyone who vandalizes or topples a statute could be charged under a federal law.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 23, 2020

Macron’s government has said it will crack down harder on unauthorized protests and get tougher on anyone who loots or vandalizes shops and monuments.

From Reuters ● Jan. 9, 2019

When Bart vandalizes a statue in the center of Springfield, he confesses to the whole town and is immediately forgiven.

From Slate ● Aug. 21, 2014

He draws in nail polish, sloshes gnarly ceramic sculptures with glaze, builds and vandalizes Formica plinths in mockery of Minimalism and makes street-wise, toxic-looking Rothkos, using black and fluorescent spray paint.

From New York Times ● Feb. 12, 2010

On Cornell’s campus in Ithaca, N.Y., activists vandalized a building and hundreds of students demanded more transparency in a series of protests and town-halls.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

Late country music legend Dolly Parton will get a new star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Friday, after the original one was vandalized, officials have announced.

From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026

People vandalized and stole Ponce’s whiteboards, adding a dimension of drama to the tracker.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

With its sunny elevator-music-scored opening of cheery park scenes and leafy residential neighborhoods, “Ice Cream Man” sets itself up, not unappealingly, like a Norman Rockwell painting asking to be vandalized.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026

Something about it makes me feel like all my insides are being vandalized.

From "I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter" by Erika L. Sánchez

Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro to prosecute David Hearn, a former Olympian who was accused of vandalizing the Reflecting Pool at the Lincoln Memorial.

From Salon ● Aug. 21, 2026

Earlier this month, Pirro drew the ire of President Trump when she dropped charges against former Olympic canoeist David Hearn, who had been accused of vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

A former US Olympian accused of vandalizing Washington's newly renovated Reflecting Pool was charged on Thursday with a felony and could face up to 10 years in prison if convicted, a federal prosecutor said.

From Barron's ● Jul. 2, 2026

In July, a Castro Valley resident was charged with vandalizing 17 Waymos in San Francisco over the course of three days, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2025

On Thursday, British authorities charged a pair of climate change activists for vandalizing Stonehenge, a prehistoric megalithic structure on a chalk plateau known as the Salisbury Plain.

From Salon ● Nov. 16, 2024