Man charged for vandalizing Little Rock Confederate graves

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Photo: Courtesy Little Rock Police

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – Police say a man has been arrested and charged for vandalizing a Confederate Cemetery in Little Rock earlier this year. Mujera Benjamin Lungaho was arrested Thursday and faces felony charges of first-degree criminal mischief, and felony desecration and removal of a cemetery grave marker. Video surveillance from the cemetery shows 30-year-old Lungaho and a woman with a hooded jacket sneaking into Oakland Cemetery Park and marking the grave sites of nearly 900 unidentified Confederate soldiers. Police have not arrested any other suspects. But they and cemetery officials speculate at least two other people were involved. Lungaho is being held at Pulaski County Jail. Bond has not yet been set.

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