A 21-year-old man has been arrested and charged in last week's vandalizing of a Pasco County cemetery.
Michael Anthony Slagle has been charged with disfiguring a tomb or monument. According to the Pasco County Sheriff's Office, Slagle lives in a neighborhood near the cemetery.
Already on probation after pleading guilty earlier this year in a child abuse case, Slagle also was charged with felony probation violation.
Twenty gravestones at the Anclote Cemetery were damaged on Saturday. Headstones were knocked over and spray-painted with profanities, and vases were shattered.
Deputies said many of the graves were sprayed painted with the word blood or a star on them. Deputies said Slagle admitted to having ties to the "blood" gang in the past though he is not a member.
The damage to the cemetery totaled about $1,500.