He Was High and Mad. His Crime: Toppling Jewish Headstones

When Alzado Harris went to the Chesed Shel Emeth Cemetery in University City, Mo., in February 2017, he was inebriated, high on pot, and peeved at a friend. That's what led to his next act, he confessed to police, per the St. Louis Post-Dispatch: knocking over more than 100 headstones in the Jewish graveyard. Court documents note Harris caused more than $30,000 in damage, and on Thursday the 35-year-old pleaded guilty to felony institutional vandalism. He was sentenced that day as well, earning three years of probation, a $5,000 restitution fine, and a mandate that he stay employed full time and take an anger management class.

Harris was arrested more than a year after the incident after officials say his DNA was tied to DNA found on a jacket left at the scene; his DNA had previously been obtained when he spent four months in prison for a 2016 break-in. Despite what Harris did, however, officials determined it wasn't a hate crime or otherwise anti-Semitic. "There is no evidence to indicate the incident was racially, ethnically, or religiously motivated," a University City police release said at the time. St. Louis Public Radio notes that if he doesn't complete his three-year probation, Harris will see a suspended sentence of five years behind bars. (More Missouri stories.)