Vandalism closes skate park
The skate park at Robe-Ann Park, Greencastle, is closed until at least next Monday, April 7 according to Park Superintendent Rod Weinschenk.
"Sometime last night vandals tagged the skate park with graffiti and stickers from TOC Skate Shop in Terre Haute," reported Greencastle Police Department Detective Randy Seipel to the BannerGraphic.
Flyers and stickers from TOC Skate Shop were plastered in several areas of the arena along with spray painted symbols and a large signature line saying "Ink Sons rule" in the large bowl.
A graffiti writer's tag is his or her personalized signature. "Tagging" is often the example given graffiti when referring to it as vandalism.
Detective Seipel and GPD are looking into the incident and believe the vandals could be from Terre Haute. The investigation is under way.
Weinschenk is not sure if the perpetrators are local or out of county. Regardless of where they are from, he wants it understood that skate park officials will not tolerate vandalism and they intend to find whoever is responsible.
"We get occasional graffiti but have never had anything as extensive as this," he told the BannerGraphic. "Whoever did this left a very definite mark and it will show up somewhere," he claimed.
Park Department workers were already cleaning up the area Thursday morning. Detective Seipel thought a work crew from the jail may help.
"It's going to be a big job to clean it all up," he stated.
Anyone with any information about this incident should contact Detective Seipel at the Greencastle Police Department.