Police put damage estimates at $15,000.
PITTSFIELD – A Pittsfield man has been arrested in connection with desecrating of more than 200 headstones and monuments at Pittsfield Cemetery.
Pittsfield Police Capt. John Mullin says that John Lundy was arrested Thursday and charged with 209 counts of gravestone vandalism. The 18-year-old is scheduled to be arraigned Friday in Central Berkshire County Court.
Mullin says police were close to making two more arrests.
According to authorities, most of the toppled stones, some of which weigh upward of 3,000 pounds, were located along a half-mile swath of the cemetery’s East Lawn and Forest Mountain sections.
Police said the vandalism of the headstones, mostly from the 19th and early 20th centuries, took place late last month. Officials say damage estimates are around $15,000.
It was not immediately clear if Lundy had an attorney.