WASHINGTON, D.C. (WAVE) – A Hardin County woman has been arrested in connection with vandalizing a monument in the nation’s capital.
U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro said Melissa Farris, 41, of Elizabethtown, is accused of damaging the World War II Memorial. Farris, who also goes by Melissa Lovewell, is charged with willfully injuring or committing a depredation against property of the United States and with destruction of a veterans’ memorial.
According to a Department of Justice media release, around 2 p.m., on Aug. 13, 2026, U.S. Park Police were called about a disorderly person who witnesses said was spray painting graffiti on portions of the memorial, which is located on the eastern end of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool…