Teen Arrested After Truck Spray-Painted

Police arrested an 18-year-old woman who told police she was merely “expressing herself” when a video camera captured someone matching her description spray-painting a truck parked in the Deaconess Medical Center parking lot.

It will cost between $500 and $1,000 to repair the truck, which is owned by the medical center, a Deaconess employee said.

A security officer at the hospital called police Saturday about 5:30 p.m. after glimpsing a woman spray-painting the truck on a closed-circuit video monitor. A camera scans the medical center’s parking lot in the 300 block of South Lincoln.

Police were able to review the woman’s actions since the camera recorded the episode on tape.

Within a half-hour, police spotted the suspect, Skye M. June walking near Third and Lincoln.

When police stopped her, they found a can of spray paint in her pocket and black paint smeared on her hands.

Police booked the woman into jail on a charge of second-degree malicious mischief.

Suspect found warming feet

A burglary suspect tried to convince sheriff’s deputies that he had cold feet when they found him inside a church at 3 a.m. Saturday.

When sheriff’s deputies and their canine, Dick, responded to a burglary alarm at Park Heights Baptist Church, 5101 S. Freya, they found a South Hill man warming his toes on a radiator inside one of the church’s Sunday school rooms.

The suspect, who had removed his shoes and socks, told police he had broken into the church to warm up.

But sheriff’s deputies, who found a glass door smashed and tracks leading into the church, discovered that several of the church’s rooms had been ransacked.

Medics checked the man for frostbite but found no signs of frigid feet.

Police arrested Daryell J. Lathem, 26, who gave his address as 3827 E. 35th. He was booked into jail on a second-degree burglary charge.

, DataTimes