remain under investigation, Sgt. Lawrence Peele, a New Jersey State Police spokesperson, said on Tuesday.
At the hearing, Drelich said that he walked from his nearby
home to the sign on Halsey Road and used a can of spray-paint to spell out the acronym BLM.
The sign is about 400 feet from Strada s house. It was unclear Tuesday whether that had anything to do with where Drelich chose to leave his graffiti. Neither prosecutors nor the defense cited the sheriff s home as a factor during the hearing.
He fled into a cow pasture across the road after he saw a state police trooper vehicle, he said. As he did so, he dropped his cell phone near the roadway.
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A second man was arrested last year for spray painting graffiti outside the home of Sussex County Sheriff Michael Strada, state police said this week, days after saying they were unaware of the incident.
Adam Wall, 33, of Hampton Township, was arrested on June 11 and charged with disorderly conduct, said New Jersey State Police spokesman Trooper Alejandro Goez.
On the day of the incident, a resident called police
around 7:30 p.m. to report a suspicious person in the area, Goez said and when officers arrived they
found Wall in the middle of Garrett Drive spray-painting the roadway. He was arrested for standing in the lane of travel and creating a hazard while vandalizing the roadway, Goez said.
I was mistaken in stating that three individuals were arrested in connection with multiple incidents at/near the home of the Sussex County Sheriff, the text reads. To correct, there were two arrests made in relation to multiple incidents at/near the home of the Sussex County Sheriff. Of these arrests, one individual admitted to a role of defacing property, she texted.
Police said that is also wrong.
Goez said he does not have any information about the letters BLM spray-painted on any roadway in Hampton and could only confirm Drelich s arrest.
The county, the day after the meeting, released a statement through its spokeswoman that repeated Fantasia s assertions.