STAFFORD, Va. — A teenager was arrested after a racial slur was found painted at a church earlier this month.
Stafford authorities on Friday announced the arrest of a 16-year-old male charged in vandalizing the Bethlehem Primitive Baptist Church at 135 Chapel Green Road. Sheriff’s deputies found a racial slur spray painted on a back wall of the church on March 4 and then put out a call for leads in the case.
Detectives linked the vandalism to the teenager who lives in Stafford County, said Stafford sheriff’s spokesman Bill Kennedy.
The teen is charged with entering the property of another for the purpose of damaging and with injuries to a church or church property, said Kennedy.
The entering a property charge is a class six felony due to the nature of the slur, added Kennedy.
