KSTP TV in Minneapolis reports that police responded to calls for two men jumping between freight cars. Police say Canadian Pacific employees followed the men and wrote down their license plate number when they fled. When police caught up with the car, police say the driver told them he was taking photos in an old lot near the freight cars, but that the driver also had paint on his hands and 20 to 25 cans of spray paint in the trunk of his car.
They also found a model freight car with a hand painted design on it, a drawing notebook, and masking tape, police say.
Police identified the driver as 21-year-old William Timothy Fischer. They say a passenger in the car was 20-year-old Lucas Adkins Lamm.
The railroad tells the TV station that one freight car car had $500 in damage and another car had $2,500 in damage.
Police charged Lamm and Fischer each with first-degree criminal damage to property, a felony. If convicted, they each face up to five years in prison and up to $10,000 in fines.
Lamm and Fischer both made their first court appearances Sept. 10. Lamm’s next court appearance is scheduled for Dec. 8, and Fischer’s is scheduled for Oct. 5.
The original story appeared on the station’s website.
