Dallas mayoral candidate Richard Sheridan arrested for June 2014 ‘666’ taggings (anti-gay vandalism)
Richard Sheridan in his mug shot taken at 4:02 p.m. today (Dallas County Sheriff)
Nine months after someone tagged a dozen locations including the Legacy of Love Monument at Cedar Springs and Oak Lawn, the Cathedral of Hope near Dallas Love Field, Dallas City Hall and
The Dallas Morning News with a red 666, Dallas police say a grand jury has indicted the man they suspected all along: perennial Dallas mayoral candidate Richard Sheridan.
Assistant Dallas Police Chief Randy Blankenbaker says Sheridan has been indicted, arrested and charged with vandalizing the Legacy of Love Monument and the Cathedral of Hope. The graffiti charge is a state jail felony, says Blankenbaker, but if its proved he selected those locations because of their significance to the LGBT community, that charge may be upgraded to a third-degree felony.
Says Blankenbaker, Sheridan is not being charged with the 10 other instances of graffiti at this time. He says significant time was spent on this investigation, and the two cases that led to Sheridans indictment and arrest were the best cases.
In August, police told
The Dallas Morning News that Sheridan was the only person whod been questioned in the case. Sheridan maintained he didnt do it: Im not guilty, Im not guilty, Im not guilty, he told our Tristan Hallman on August 14 in the lobby of Dallas police headquarters. But Sheridan said he knew who did and that he agreed with the tags. He also said that despite what police were saying, the tags were not a hate crime {but} an act of love and a warning.
Read more:
http://crimeblog.dallasnews.com/2015/03/dallas-mayoral-candidate-richard-sheridan-arrested-for-june-2014-666-taggings.html
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Cross-posted in the LGBT Group.