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Last updated on Sunday, August 26, 2018
(UNDATED) - Authorities have made an arrest in a string of church vandalism in Bartholomew and Brown counties during the summer of 2017.
Police arrested 20-year-old Renzo Signorino of Columbus on preliminary charges of burglary, theft and institutional criminal mischief.
According to an announcement by the Bartholomew County Sheriff's Department, churches in Brown and Bartholomew counties were vandalized, items were stolen and fires were set in the incidents.
Among the churches affected were Brown County's Way of Holiness Tabernacle Church, St. Agnes Catholic Church, Pike's Peak Church of Christ and Bartholomew County's Ohio Chapel United Methodist Church.
Local authorities received a tip from the Carmel Police Department and the FBI August 19th concerning a case they were working in Carmel.
A 17-year old juvenile is also connected to this case and charges are pending.
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