{"id":3961,"date":"2015-10-28T20:32:57","date_gmt":"2015-10-29T03:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/preteens-questioned-as-suspects-in-alaska-cemetery-vandalism\/"},"modified":"2015-10-28T20:32:57","modified_gmt":"2015-10-29T03:32:57","slug":"preteens-questioned-as-suspects-in-alaska-cemetery-vandalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/preteens-questioned-as-suspects-in-alaska-cemetery-vandalism\/","title":{"rendered":"Preteens questioned as suspects in Alaska cemetery vandalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ANCHORAGE \u2014 <\/strong>Authorities in a southeast Alaska town say preteen boys and girls have been questioned as suspects in a vandalism spree targeting a 200-year-old Russian Orthodox and Alaska Native cemetery.<\/p>\n<p>Numerous marble headstones weighing hundreds of pounds were toppled over in three vandalism incidents at the 7-acre forested site in Sitka. Police say at least 10 headstones sustained significant damage between the incidents, which were reported between Sept. 13 and Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Police Lt. Lance Ewers credits \u201cgood old-fashioned police work\u201d for breaking the case Tuesday night following a series of tips. He declines to say how many minors were detained for questioning before being returned to their parents.<\/p>\n<p>Ewers says the case continues to be under investigation. He says possible charges have been forwarded to juvenile authorities.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANCHORAGE \u2014 Authorities in a southeast Alaska town say preteen boys and girls have been questioned as suspects in a vandalism spree targeting a 200-year-old Russian Orthodox and Alaska Native cemetery. Numerous marble headstones weighing hundreds of pounds were toppled over in three vandalism incidents at the 7-acre forested site in Sitka. Police say at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[230],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-3961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3961\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3961"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=3961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}