by Leslie Layton
A Chico man who had been previously committed to a mental health facility was charged Friday with vandalism and violating civil rights, according to a press release from the Butte County District Attorney’s Office.
The press statement says Thomas David Bona, 33, was charged in Butte County Superior Court and will return to court to respond to charges at 8:30 a.m. June 19.
Butte County District Attorney Mike Ramsey’s statement says Bona was charged after committing “various acts of racist and non-racist graffiti throughout the City of Chico over the last two months.”
However, the statement doesn’t indicate that charges are being filed in connection with all 10 of the sites that were struck in the June 2 graffiti assault on southwest Chico and is specific only in relation to several properties.