Crime & Safety

Charges Dropped Against Brookline Tesla Vandal: Report

The man was first arrested in March.

BROOKLINE, MA — A man who was arrested for vandalizing Teslas with political stickers earlier this year has had his charges dropped by a Brookline District Court judge, according to a report from Brookline News.

Harrison Randall, 39, was first spotted placing stickers on Tesla vehicles in opposition of the car company’s CEO Elon Musk and his political affiliation at the time. He was soon charged with six counts of defacing property.

The charges were dropped on Wednesday after Randall’s attorney, Marc Brofsky, filed a motion to dismiss, arguing that police and prosecutors did not prove that Randall was acting “willfully with malice,” which is a required to convict a person of felony vandalism.

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The Norfolk District Attorney’s Office said the charges were dropped for that reason.

Read more at Brookline News.

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