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beemerphile1
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Jun 21, 2016

Casey Nocket sentenced for making her mark!

In 2014 a young woman named Casey Nocket went on a cross country trip and wanted to leave her mark on the world. In her infantile wisdom she decided to do that by defacing our national lands with graffiti.

She recently pleaded guilty and was sentenced to two years probation, during which she is not allowed to set foot in national parks or land administered by the Army Corps of Engineers, U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management.

She was also required to write a formal apology to the National Parks Service to make amends and acknowledge the harm she inflicted.

As additional punishment she is expected to complete 200 hours of community service and pay restitution for the cleanup effort.

It is yet to be determined the total amount of restitution she will pay. Most of the graffiti has been removed but there are still two locations where it has not due to concerns of the removal causing further damage.

Personally I am glad that they didn't let her off without punishment.

http://www.modernhiker.com/2016/06/14/casey-nocket-pleads-guilty-to-vandalism/
  • rockhillmanor wrote:
    A couple months in the slammer would have been a better sentence.
    That's my thinking as well.

    Paying fines and restitution isn't enough. To some people, it's pocket change. Community service, it's a joke.

    I little jail time would be more appropriate. Even if it was just 30 days in the slammer. But a few months would be better.
  • beemerphile1 wrote:
    In 2014 a young woman named Casey Nocket went on a cross country trip and wanted to leave her mark on the world. In her infantile wisdom she decided to do that by defacing our national lands with graffiti.

    She recently pleaded guilty and was sentenced to two years probation, during which she is not allowed to set foot in national parks or land administered by the Army Corps of Engineers, U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management.

    She was also required to write a formal apology to the National Parks Service to make amends and acknowledge the harm she inflicted.

    As additional punishment she is expected to complete 200 hours of community service and pay restitution for the cleanup effort.

    It is yet to be determined the total amount of restitution she will pay. Most of the graffiti has been removed but there are still two locations where it has not due to concerns of the removal causing further damage.

    Personally I am glad that they didn't let her off without punishment.

    http://www.modernhiker.com/2016/06/14/casey-nocket-pleads-guilty-to-vandalism/

    Plus 90 days in the slammer would have been nicer.
  • I might have wished for a longer period of time when she's banned from the national parks. Glad she was ordered to pay restitution and issue a written apology. I hope she learns the correct lesson from this experience - and that others, who might have followed in her footsteps, do too!
  • Teddy Roosevelt saw the need for some of the country's natural beauty to remain undisturbed. She's lucky the sentence was not more severe.
  • People like her and the Boy Scout leaders need to account for there stupid destruction.

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