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Air Force officer allegedly vandalized cars with pro-Bush bumper stickers
9NEWS ^ | 8/9/2005 7:16 PM MDT | Chip Yost

Posted on 08/09/2005 6:26:45 PM PDT by RandallFlagg

DENVER - Denver police say a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Air Force has admitted to vandalizing cars bearing pro-President Bush bumper stickers at Denver International Airport.

Police say he's responsible for thousands of dollars in damage on at least 12 cars. Lt. Colonel Alexis Fecteau, 42, of Colorado Springs, turned himself in to Denver police Friday.

He is director of reserve operations at the National Security Space Institute in Colorado Springs, in charge of more than 40 full-time and traditional reservists.

In the arrest affidavit, Denver police say Fecteau admitted to damaging several cars after police conducted a sting-operation to catch the anti-Bush vandal.

"It was pretty good police work," said Denver Police spokesman Sonny Jackson. He said his department took this case very seriously. "You still have a right to express yourself in this country and you shouldn't have your car vandalized because of it."

Jackson said one of the detectives put out a bait car in late June, complete with a Bush/Cheney 2004 bumper sticker, in the west economy lot at DIA. On July 1st, with a security camera zoomed in to watch, an SUV drove by the bait car, and a short time later a man entered the scene. The man in the video appeared to spray paint something on the back of the car and then continued to do something on the side of the car.

When officers returned to the bait car, the bumper sticker had been painted over and the words "F--- Bush" were spray-painted on the side of the car.

Police used airport exit logs to trace the license plate of the SUV believed to be seen in the bait car surveillance video to Fecteau.

When Fecteau's SUV was spotted parked in the DIA lot on a subsequent visit, police impounded it. When Fecteau approached police about the whereabouts of his SUV, a DPD detective confronted him. Court records show that at that time, Fecteau admitted to the DIA vandalism and said he started damaging vehicles around "election time" last year.

The affidavit shows Fecteau told investigators he didn't mean the graffiti to be a threat against President Bush. He went on to admit he has scratched the same kind of graffiti into "a couple of cars" with his "keys and key holder."

Inside Fecteau's 2001 Ford Excursion, police found a bin full of products, including a tube of Park Tube Polylube, a grease used for bicycle repairs, a spray can of Kleen Strip Auto Strip paint thinner, and Krylon Textured Shimmer paint.

Fecteau faces one count of felony criminal mischief and at least five other misdemeanor counts of criminal mischief. Fecteau has posted a $5,000 bond and is due back in court later this month.

Air Force spokesperson Major Barbara Matthew told 9News in a phone interview Monday the service hasn't taken action against Fecteau in regards to the vandalism. Instead, Matthew said, the Air Force plans to allow due process through local law enforcement. Calls to Fecteau's work and home were not returned.

One of the vandalized cars belongs to Jeremy Kinney, owner of Kinney Oil Co. of Denver. Kinney is a long-time friend of President George W. Bush. The two attended Yale together in the 1960s and have remained friends ever since.

"You feel violated in a sense when something like this happens, but it was more disappointment than anger," said Kinney, who worked on both of George W. Bush's presidential campaigns.

Kinney had a "Bush for President" bumper sticker stuck on a tool-box located on his 1992 Ford truck. When he returned from a flight on June 19, he noticed the bumper sticker had been painted over and the words "F--- Bush" were painted on the side of the car.

It cost Kinney more than $250 to fix the damage. But, he said, there is a larger price to pay for this kind of vandalism.

"It just reinforced to me the lack of political discourse that takes place in this country, polite political discourse," Kinney said.

"There is so much anger in politics that I find it not only counter-productive but annoying and disappointing."


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Colorado
KEYWORDS: airforce; alexfecteau; alexisfecteau; article88; bumperstickers; democrats; fecteau; hatecrimes; liberals; vandalism
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To: axes_of_weezles
This guy is not a fast burner either. Made Lt Col in May 03 from FY01, when they were promoting like crazy prior to the kickoff of the war.

Promotions are generally slower in the Reserves, so actually he may have been a bit of a fast burner. He'd have only been in less than 20 years. But it depends on how long he was active duty, where promotions are faster.

161 posted on 08/10/2005 9:17:58 AM PDT by El Gato
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To: Don Carlos
If I had caught that punk, he would still be walking bent forward ...

...err...What exactly did you plan to do to him? (not that there's anything wrong with that)...

162 posted on 08/10/2005 9:30:59 AM PDT by BlueMondaySkipper (The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it. - George Orwell)
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To: El Gato

Okay, thank you, EG, for clearing that up for me. I also realized after posting that that nowhere on the webpage did it actually say her first name was Alexis. Seems I left 'Alexis' out of all my searches when I went down through the ranks, hoping to find something about him before he was an LTC. My goof.


163 posted on 08/10/2005 9:54:39 AM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: timestax

bttt


164 posted on 08/10/2005 11:42:17 AM PDT by timestax
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To: Shawndell Green
I love your Cheney Ashcroft 08 sticker! That must really tick off the liberals. I will have to buy myself some magnetic printer paper and make up a few for myself!

Go for it. The faces you'll see are priceless.
165 posted on 08/10/2005 2:44:51 PM PDT by RandallFlagg (Roll your own cigarettes! You'll save $$$ and smoke less!(Magnetic bumper stickers-click my name)
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To: RandallFlagg

This guy has issues... not the least of which is that he's a guy named Alexis.


166 posted on 08/10/2005 2:46:07 PM PDT by Not A Snowbird (Official RKBA Landscaper and Arborist, Duchess of Green Leafy Things)
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To: RandallFlagg
Air Force spokesperson Major Barbara Matthew told 9News in a phone interview Monday the service hasn't taken action against Fecteau in regards to the vandalism. Instead, Matthew said, the Air Force plans to allow due process through local law enforcement. Calls to Fecteau's work and home were not returned.

No, they're just waiting. Once local law enforcement does its thing, then the military hammer will fall.

167 posted on 08/10/2005 2:47:49 PM PDT by Not A Snowbird (Official RKBA Landscaper and Arborist, Duchess of Green Leafy Things)
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To: Paleo Conservative
"Fecteau" sounds French to me

LOL, that was my first thought! I was surprised to see it take so long to materialize into a comment...
168 posted on 08/10/2005 3:02:50 PM PDT by andyk (Go Matt Kenseth!)
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To: Andrewksu

Don't show post #14 to your mother


169 posted on 08/10/2005 6:00:37 PM PDT by centurion316 (Never apologize, its a sign of weakness)
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To: F16Fighter
Bush won Colorado, didn't he? ;-)

All but Boulder, I think.
170 posted on 08/10/2005 6:35:57 PM PDT by RandallFlagg (Roll your own cigarettes! You'll save $$$ and smoke less!(Magnetic bumper stickers-click my name)
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To: Fresh Wind

Well, that's a cheap paint job.


171 posted on 08/10/2005 6:40:31 PM PDT by bannie (The government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.)
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To: dk/coro
This bast@@@ is a disgrace to the uniform; and should be courts-martialed, on a number of counts.

I'm gonna guess that whatever happpens to him, he'll probably be made out to be a victim and the left will embrace him as an opponent against President Bush; regardless of the criminal acts. They'll cart his vandalizing butt out -IN UNIFORM- and have him bark out his opposition to the war, America, Bush, and everything else hated by the loony-toon librats. Then they'll scream, "SEE?! Even the military hates Bush! SEE? SEEE?!"
172 posted on 08/10/2005 6:44:52 PM PDT by RandallFlagg (Roll your own cigarettes! You'll save $$$ and smoke less!(Magnetic bumper stickers-click my name)
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To: wrathof59

I think all of the vehicles' owners should sue his butt.


173 posted on 08/10/2005 6:50:21 PM PDT by RandallFlagg (Roll your own cigarettes! You'll save $$$ and smoke less!(Magnetic bumper stickers-click my name)
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To: All
OMG!!!

I just read the top again.....

The vandalizing lefty was driving...........


AN SUV!!

BWAAAHAHAHAHAAA!!!!
174 posted on 08/10/2005 6:53:19 PM PDT by RandallFlagg (Roll your own cigarettes! You'll save $$$ and smoke less!(Magnetic bumper stickers-click my name)
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To: SteveMcKing

I usually laugh really loudly.


175 posted on 08/10/2005 6:54:10 PM PDT by RandallFlagg (Roll your own cigarettes! You'll save $$$ and smoke less!(Magnetic bumper stickers-click my name)
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To: axes_of_weezles

Yep,

But why would he do this? What's with this dude? Is he a homo?

Red6


176 posted on 08/10/2005 6:58:23 PM PDT by Red6
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To: libs_kma
True, they just feel...this idiot felt angry when he saw a Bush bumper sticker, and he felt better when he f'ed up the car.

But TWELVE TIMES?! At Least?
177 posted on 08/10/2005 7:02:32 PM PDT by RandallFlagg (Roll your own cigarettes! You'll save $$$ and smoke less!(Magnetic bumper stickers-click my name)
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To: Becki

$hit, you beat me to it! :)

I just though of that myself- "He's French!"

Red6


178 posted on 08/10/2005 7:03:01 PM PDT by Red6
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To: bannie

Thanks for posting the pic. I saved it in my hard drive (because you just know they're going to bury this story just as fast as they can) and will have some photoshop fun on my days off.


179 posted on 08/10/2005 7:05:03 PM PDT by RandallFlagg (Roll your own cigarettes! You'll save $$$ and smoke less!(Magnetic bumper stickers-click my name)
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To: ShaggyBrown

OMG- release his phone number? Brutal.

Red6


180 posted on 08/10/2005 7:05:41 PM PDT by Red6
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