Two men were arrested today after a rockface was vandalised at Paradise Falls in northeast Victoria.
A 24-year-old Rosebud man was arrested in Melbourne’s CBD earlier this morning.
Police from Whitfield charged the man with criminal damage, as well as charges against the Aboriginal Heritage Act 2006.
He was bailed to appear before the Wangaratta Magistrates’ Court on 29 September.
A second man, aged 25 from Hastings, was arrested by Mornington detectives during a search warrant at his address.
He will be charged at a later date with the same offences.
The Paradise Falls waterfall, which has cultural significance to the Aboriginal community, was located vandalised by Parks Victoria officers on 12 May this year.
The rockface, at the base of the falls, had been spraypainted with graffiti.
The damage was approximately 10 metres wide and two metres high.
Specialist graffiti analysts from the Transit Divisional Response Unit assisted with the investigation.
https://www.police.vic.gov.au/two-men-arrested-after-paradise-falls-graffiti-incident
