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发帖数: 26623 | 1 WASHINGTON (AP) — A woman charged with defacing the Washington National
Cathedral had a soda can of green paint with her when she was arrested, and
she has been linked to at least four other incidents of vandalism, including
at the Lincoln Memorial, according to prosecutors and court documents.
Jiamei Tian, 58, appeared alongside a Mandarin translator on Tuesday in D.C.
Superior Court, where a judge ordered her held pending a hearing later this
week. Prosecutors had previously identified her as Jia M. Tian.
Tian was arrested Monday at the cathedral, where she is accused of using
green paint to deface an organ and decorative woodwork in two separate
chapels. She's been charged with destroying private property, a crime that
carries a maximum 10-year prison sentence.
The cathedral has said the damage to its chapels, including to a gilded wood
altarpiece, will cost thousands of dollars to fix.
Authorities believe the green paint vandalism was part of a pattern of
similar acts. Green paint was discovered splattered onto the Lincoln
Memorial early Friday morning, and symbols were later found painted in green
on a statue outside the Smithsonian headquarters on the National Mall.
The woman, who has a Chinese passport, arrived in Washington a few days ago
and was traveling on an expired visa, prosecutors said. Police said she had
no fixed address but that she told officers she lived in Los Angeles. She
refused to give her phone number, email address or home address, police said
, and a language barrier complicated initial efforts to interview her.
Prosecutors asked the judge to keep Tian locked up, calling her a flight
risk and a danger to the community. Assistant U.S. Attorney Kevin Chambers
said there was no way to guarantee her presence at future court appearances
without jailing her.
"While that danger to the community is not violent, it is nonetheless
serious," he said.
Tian was arrested inside the cathedral's Children's Chapel on Monday
afternoon, shortly after the still-wet green paint was discovered there.
When a police officer approached her, she walked away and placed the soda
can with green paint inside one of three bags that were sitting on chairs in
the chapel, documents show. She also had green paint on her clothing, shoes
and body, authorities say.
She was wearing a multicolored sock on her right arm, and a similar sock was
found in a trash can in a bathroom at the cathedral on top of a can of
green paint, according to the documents. The bags placed in the chapel also
had cans of green paint in them, police said.
Tian is also suspected of vandalizing a statue of Martin Luther on Thomas
Circle in downtown Washington, which was also hit with green paint,
prosecutors say.
Following her arrest, a witness contacted police and reported that the woman
had been seen attending a service at a church less than a block from Thomas
Circle, according to court documents. The witness reported that the woman
was carrying three bags with her. After she left, the witness found that a
pipe organ in the church had been splattered with white paint, urine and
feces, police say.
D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier said Tuesday on a news talk show on
NewsChannel 8 that the incidents all appear to be connected. She said Tian
has potential "mental health issues" and it's still not clear what inspired
the vandalism.
"What the motive is for the incidents, we don't really know," she said. "I
guess that will all start to unfold as we go through the courts."
A lawyer for Tian argued that her client could be appropriately dealt with
by immigration authorities instead of going to jail, but Chambers disagreed.
"We have her here now," he said. "We want her to answer for these alleged
offenses."
Cleanup crews have been working for the past few days to remove the paint
from the Lincoln Memorial. An estimated $15,000 in repair work has already
begun at the Episcopal cathedral, which serves as the nation's spiritual
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