Suspects still sought in ROTC vandalism
Published: Sat, Apr. 29, 2006 12:00AM
Modified Sat, Apr. 29, 2006 03:50AM
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closeRALEIGH -- Police still are looking for vandals who painted anti-war slogans and splashed red paint early Wednesday on the buildings used by Reserve Officers' Training Corps at N.C. State University and UNC-Chapel Hill.
An e-mail message sent to local media that morning to claim credit and to solicit questions from journalists wasn't much help to investigators, said Sgt. Jon Barnwell of the N.C. State campus police department.
The e-mail message, from someone claiming to be "celest ialbeing" at wildfish863@yahoo.com, turned out to have been sent from a public computer such as those available at libraries.
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"They were a little smarter than we had thought," Barnwell said.
Someone from that address traded e-mail messages with a News & Observer reporter Thursday morning and agreed to a telephone interview, then didn't call.
Barnwell said campus police are getting help from a military investigator on the case. They think that the university incidents are related to similar vandalism at three military recruiting stations in Raleigh and Durham last month.
The subject field in the e-mail message said, "more red paint and anti-war." The previous attacks also involved red paint.
A similar follow-up e-mail message came from "Adrian Anderson" at amha2865@yahoo.com.
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