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Woman Charged for Defacing WWII Memorial | Lexington News
A woman named Melissa Farris, 41, faces federal charges for spray-painting graffiti on the World War II Memorial in D.C. Witnesses saw her do it before police arrived, leaving orange, green, and pink paint with a possible whistleblower message. She admitted to it online, expecting to be caught. This isn’t her first brush with the law—she was arrested days earlier for camping on federal land nearby, and investigators linked her social media to another alias, Melissa Lovewell. U.S. prosecutors call it a “disgusting act” and an “insult” to veterans, charging her with willful damage to government…
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