VANDALS TURN DREAM HOUSE INTO NIGHTMARE.Byline: Ryan Oliver Staff Writer TUJUNGA - Three middle-school girls who didn't want ``rich people'' moving into their neighborhood broke into a $500,000 dream house being built by two immigrants and caused thousands of dollars in damage, authorities said. The girls - ages 11, 12 and 13 - trashed trashed adj. Slang Drunk or intoxicated. Our Living Language Expressions for intoxication are among those that best showcase the creativity of slang. the inside of the 5,000- square-foot Valmont Street home, then painted their names and their school, Mount Gleason Elementary, on the walls, officials said. ``She said, 'We hate rich people, and we don't want them to move in here,''' said Gary Avetisyan, who managed to grab one of the girls as she ran from the scene about 7 p.m. June 10. ``I couldn't believe it. She's 11 or 12 years old. How does she know who's rich and who's poor?'' Because the damage was so extensive, juvenile detectives are recommending that the girls be charged with felony felony (fĕl`ənē), any grave crime, in contrast to a misdemeanor, that is so declared in statute or was so considered in common law. vandalism. If the girls are convicted in Juvenile Court juvenile court Special court handling problems of delinquent, neglected, or abused children. Two types of cases are processed by a juvenile court: civil matters, often concerning care of an abandoned or impoverished child, and criminal matters, arising from antisocial , officials said, they likely would receive probation and be ordered to pay restitution In the context of Criminal Law, state programs under which an offender is required, as a condition of his or her sentence, to repay money or donate services to the victim or society; with respect to maritime law, the restoration of articles lost by jettison, done when the . ``They just unleashed all of their anger upon that house,'' said Detective David Escoto. Authorities said the vandals pried pried 1 v. Past tense and past participle of pry1. open a back door, then smashed through a locked, interior door into an area where paint, cement and tile grout Grout A binding or structural agent used in construction and engineering applications. Grout is typically a mixture of hydraulic cement and water, with or without fine aggregate; however, chemical grouts are also produced. were stored. Those materials were splashed and smeared smear v. smeared, smear·ing, smears v.tr. 1. a. To spread or daub with a sticky, greasy, or dirty substance. b. on walls, floors and ceilings throughout the two-story home. In the master bathroom, Italian tiles were destroyed, and electrical outlets were covered with cement, officials said. A hammer was used to punch holes through the sheet rock. Avetisyan and his brother-in-law, both plumbers, are building their dream home in a working-class neighborhood of compact, ranch homes. He said he never had any previous problems with his neighbors. CAPTION(S): 2 photos Photo: (1 -- 2) A hammer is struck in the wall, above, of the $500,000 dream home being built by Gary Avetisyan in Tujunga. At left, Avetisyan walks outside the nearly 5,000-square-foot home on Valmont Street home after vandals attacked the property. Officials said three girls are suspects in the home attack. Tom Mendoza/Staff Photographer |
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