Woman Arrested for Defacing Private Elementary School in Easton
EASTON, Md. – The Easton Police Department arrested a woman late Friday night in connection with several reports of graffiti, including on a private elementary school in the area.
On Friday morning, officers responded to a call from Saints Peter and Paul Elementary School reporting vandalism on the property. Officers were shown multiple areas on the schoolgrounds where a symbol had been spray painted, and identified the marking as the international transgender symbol. The symbols was also located on a portion of the fence at the Hampton Inn, two nearby stop signs, and an exterior wall of a building along Dover Street and Higgins Street.
Later that day, officers located the same graffiti in the following areas: Park Street at Dover Road, Park Street at Point Lane, Kemp Lane at Dover Road, and J & K Wine and Liquors. Investigators were able to obtain a picture of the suspect, who was covering their face.
At approximately 10:30 pm, Easton Police were dispatched to Ulta Beauty for a suspicious person spray-painting the ground in the area. While enroute, dispatch provided additional descriptors of the suspect, which matched the suspect in the photo police had obtained earlier. As officers were looking for the suspect, they observed an individual matching the description provided in the area of the Talbot Town Shopping Center. Upon making contact with the subject, identified as 32-year-old Sian Radaskiewicz-King, officers noted that Radaskiewicz-King was wearing a pair of very distinctive shoes, matching the ones seen on surveillance footage.
Officers have arrested Radaskiewicz-King and charged her with multiple counts of malicious destruction of property and use of a hate symbol, in addition to defacing religious property. She was later released to the custody of the Talbot County Detention Center.
Investigators are still encouraging anyone with information related to this matter to contact the Easton Police Department at 410-822-1111. Residents and business owners are asked to check their surveillance systems for any footage that could assist in the investigation.
