USD 225), with lawyers managing to reduce the amount from 39,000 pesos (approx. On June 12, the eleven journalists were released on bail amounting to 12,000 pesos (approx. However, the decision to recognise the farmers as legitimate recipients of the land was never officially implemented. Due to the combined costs of damage caused by David Wurtz, he was arrested for malicious mischief in the 2nd degree and booked into Whatcom County Jail.Police arrested the journalists and student journalists, along with more than 90 individuals including farmers who were beneficiaries of an agrarian reform program and land reform advocates, while reporting on cultivation work on disputed land in Tinang, Concepcion, in the Tarlac province of Central Luzon.Īccording to an advocacy group for farmers’ rights and other marginalised sectors, the arrested farmers were recipients of 200 hectares of land in Tinang from the Department of Agrarian Reform in 2018. A check of other bus stops in the area found several signs had been vandalized with paint which was still wet and dripping.īased on the observed actions of David Wurtz, physical evidence, and consistencies with previously reported crimes, there was probable cause to arrest David Wurtz for multiple counts of malicious mischief. David Wurtz had fresh black paint on his hand and fingertips as well as having a can of black spray paint in his possession. The subject was detained by police and identified as David Wurtz. As the subject walked by the bus stop located in front of 5750 Vista Dr, the subject sprayed paint on a bus stop sign belonging to WTA. Shortly after midnight on, police witnessed a subject walking in the area. In response to these reports, police set up surveillance of a bus stop in the 5700 block of Vista Dr. Damage estimates related to these offenses ranged from $2,500 – $3,500. Whatcom Transit Authority (WTA) had reported several incidents of vandalism towards their bus stops in the previous months. David Wurtz was arrested shortly after midnight on by the Ferndale Police Department for multiple counts of malicious mischief.
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