A wave of vandalism continued to mar some of Washington’s more popular landmarks Monday with at least three more attractions spattered with green paint, and authorities announced the arrest of a woman near one of the incidents at the Washington National Cathedral.
The latest crimes occurred three days after the Lincoln Memorial was defaced in similar fashion; on Monday, the light-green paint was discovered on an organ in the cathedral’s Bethlehem Chapel, in the cathedral’s Children’s Chapel and on the granite base of a statue next to the Smithsonian Castle on the National Mall.
D.C. police announced Monday evening that they had charged Tian Jiamel, 58, whom they belive to be homeless, with one count of defacing property.