Suspect in World War II Memorial vandalism facing felony charges, taken into custody

Fox 5 DC ^ | 8/14/2026 | Sam Kosmas

[VanShuyten]

WASHINGTON - Authorities have taken into custody the suspect accused of vandalizing the World War II Memorial on the National Mall, where bubbles filled a fountain and "Clean hands dirty $" was written in red paint.

In a post on X, U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro identified the suspect as Melissa L. Farris. Pirro called the vandalism "a despicable attack on a sacred monument" and said her office is filing two felony charges, Depredation Against Property of the United States and Destruction of Veterans’ Memorials, offenses that carry penalties of up to ten years in prison. She said Farris is now in custody.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: criminal; farris; itsaman; melissafarris; melissalfarris; notaffluent; vandalism; wful; ww2memorial; wwiimemorial

[VanShuyten]

Video of this Karen spray-painting the memorial at the article.

[Kudsman]

Typical AWFUL?

[FlingWingFlyer]

I see a big Pierro slap on the wrist of the little, retarded diploma holding, daddy’s little princess piggy.

[Tell It Right]

Only in a Dim mind does it make sense to fight fascism by defacing a memorial to those who died fighting fascism.

[Kudsman]

The sad part is that it will be a DC jury.

[willk]

AWFUL or homeless mentally ill woman. Not much difference except one is homeless.

[Dan in Wichita]

The b*tch who did this was bragging about it and daring someone to do something about it. She probably expects to get nothing more than a slap on the wrist and she may be correct about that. It’s DC.

[FlingWingFlyer]

It’s time for Americans to slap the piss out of hos like this when they see one of these America haters misbehaving. Knock the crap out of her and then cover her with spray paint.

[hanamizu]

The sad part is that it will be a DC jury.

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There’s that, of course. But since it wasn’t the ‘Trump WWII Memorial’, and since even DC residents have family who fought and died in WWII, there might be a chance of conviction.

[RWGinger]

Good point. I hope you are right.

[chickenlips]

Does Melissa have two X chromosomes?

[Sicon]

Is it "trans"?

[SaveFerris]

(Melissa L. Farris)

Melissa? 🤔🤔🤔

[Allegra]

Throw the book at that scumbag.

[PROCON]

That's a man, baby!

[SuperLuminal]

Woodchipper material...

[canuck_conservative]

Typical AWFUL?

She doesn't look too affluent ... so, just WFUL ...

[Libloather]

Flock camera? That’s gonna piss off a whole bunch of folks here.

[Eli Kopter]

I hope she does major jail time.

[Maskot]

“She” looka like a man