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October 20, 2011
Man charged after baseball coach's home vandalized
Officials on Wednesday charged the one adult believed to have vandalized a high school baseball coach’s Austin home with seven juveniles in June, according to an arrest affidavit.
On June 2, Hendrickson High School’s baseball coach at the time, John Pineda, woke up to see his home and pickup vandalized with tomato paste, eggs, women’s underwear, bologna and lewd images, the affidavit said. Damages were estimated to be as much as $4,200, the document said
Martin Lara Jr., 18, of Pflugerville, was among the eight people who vandalized Pineda’s home about 2:30 a.m. on June 2, the affidavit said.
The document said a neighbor’s surveillance camera captured a dark SUV and a black full-size truck driving toward the home. Those vehicles, and some of the people inside them, were seen on surveillance footage from a Wal-Mart store where some of the same materials used to vandalize the property were purchased about 2 a.m.
Lara, who was charged with criminal mischief, a felony, was not in custody Thursday afternoon.
Pineda told police that he believes one of the alleged vandals, a juvenile who was not named in the affidavit, was one of his baseball players because they have had previous conflicts, the affidavit said.
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July 29, 2009
Man arrested in vandalism of city buildings
Police this morning arrested 47-year-old Jesse Elmer Whited in connection with vandalism Monday night at City Hall and police headquarters, Sgt. Richard Stresing said.
Whited is is also accused of breaking a window at the Mexican Consulate at Sixth and Brazos streets and breaking a window and kicking a police car on Eighth Street, all around the same time Monday night, police said.
Downtown officers identified Whited through surveillance video and arrested him this morning, Stresing said. He did not know at what time.
Whited was charged with one count criminal mischief, Stresing said.
Police say Whited threw a piece of concrete into a glass door at City Hall about 10:10 p.m. Monday, and then again through a window at police headquarters at 10:24 p.m.
He is in the Travis County Jail, and his bail has not been set, records show.
Officials said it would cost $500 to fix the door and $800 to fix the window.
