'Sorry, Not Sorry' Thief Sentenced For Bridge Theft

JEFFERSON COUNTY, WA — A Forks man who used a chainsaw to carve up a Jefferson County bridge has been sentenced to a year and a half behind bars.

His message to the public that he endangered by hacking away at the bridge support: "Sorry, not sorry."

Sixty-three-year-old Troy Crandall was first arrested in October, after he and a second man were caught using a chainsaw to carve blocks of wood out of a bridge in the Washington State Department of Natural Resources' Clearwater block.

Investigators said they believe the duo had been carving up the cedar to resell it on the black market to mill owners, who could then turn the wood into shake shingles.

The two were only caught thanks to a pair of hunters who heard the sounds of a chainsaw, and called the Department of Natural Resources, which dispatched Officer Allen Nelson to check out the mysterious noise. When Nelson arrived, he found large chunks of wood had been shorn from the bridge's underside, and two men nearby who were "cold, wet, covered in cedar saw dust, and [smelling] of chainsaw gas," the DNR said.

When Nelson asked what they were doing there, Crandall reportedly told him that his intervention was "corporate bullshit" and that the bridge was "just rotting away."

The attack on the bridge clearly struck a chord at the DNR, which afterward tweeted: "Can't believe we have to say this, but don't take chainsaws to our bridges."

Crandall has been sentenced to 17.5 months in prison, after being convicted of malicious mischief, theft, and trafficking in stolen property. He also has been ordered to pay $20,220.60 in restitution.