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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - St. Michael the Archangel Anglican Church disconnected Shaw and Palm avenues successful Fresno has been deed with thousands of dollars successful damage, aft they accidental a antheral vandalized aggregate windows connected 4 abstracted occasions astatine their buildings from precocious June to aboriginal July.
Police identified the fishy arsenic 57-year-old Frank Dominguez. The religion says helium was captured successful the enactment connected surveillance video connected 2 of the 4 occasions.
He is successful custody connected nary bail and is facing a felony vandalism charge, aft the religion says helium caused fearfulness and choler done his alleged spree of destruction.
"Your religion is nether attack," said Father Townsend Waddill of St. Michael's. "And that's precise overmuch the mode it felt to america due to the fact that of the information that it was happening implicit and implicit and implicit again."
Waddill says helium hopes this is the past clip this ever happens to them, aft helium says constabulary caught Dominguez successful the enactment connected July 20.
"My cleaning idiosyncratic was on campus, could really perceive the solid breaking. So, helium instantly called 911," helium said. "While Fresno Police was successful the parking lot, helium started throwing much rocks."
Waddill says it each started connected June 28 and deed them with unexpected expenses.
"We already person invoices in manus for $6,000. That's for astir fractional the glass. We're expecting astir apt determination betwixt $10,000 and $15,000 worthy of damage," said Waddill, who adds he's thankful Sierra Glass came to assistance successful the mediate of the nighttime to committee up windows.
Dominguez has a agelong transgression past and was backmost connected the streets aft getting retired of jailhouse successful April.
However, owed to a deficiency of convulsive charges to date, helium was connected post-release assemblage supervision, which officials accidental kept him successful the nationalist to interruption laws and allowed him to vandalize the church.
"This idiosyncratic is an illustration of idiosyncratic who has had anterior convictions for DUI, for drugs, for vandalism. You know, he's a menace to the community," said Fresno County District Attorney Lisa Smittcamp.
Smittcamp sat down with YourCentralValley.com to sermon Dominguez and others with a akin record. She says this is not a Fresno County oregon Central Valley problem; instead, she says it falls to the state.
Smittcamp says acknowledgment to AB109, which realigned the state's situation strategy to propulsion much offenders to region jurisdictions and PRCS, and authorities similar Prop. 47, galore of the tools they utilized to support criminals accountable person been taken away.
"We person radical looking astatine us, looking astatine the constabulary department, looking astatine the sheriff's department, looking astatine the jail, looking astatine the DA's bureau saying, 'Why are you failing our community?,'" she said. "We're not. We're doing the champion that we tin with the resources we person and the laws that are passed by Sacramento legislators."
The Fresno County District Attorney says she hopes her bureau volition beryllium capable to complaint this arsenic a felony.
Dominguez volition beryllium backmost successful tribunal for a PRCS proceeding connected Aug. 7.
