Syracuse, NY - A former Baldwinsville resident admitted his guilt in Onondaga County Court today in a vandalism spree that targeted residents of a village neighborhood last year. Justin McGill, 18, listing a current address on Nancy Avenue in Brewerton, pleaded guilty before Judge Joseph Fahey to four felony counts of third-degree criminal mischief. In pleading guilty, he admitted causing...
Syracuse, NY - A former Baldwinsville resident admitted his guilt in Onondaga County Court today in a vandalism spree that targeted residents of a village neighborhood last year.
Justin McGill, 18, listing a current address on Nancy Avenue in Brewerton, pleaded guilty before Judge Joseph Fahey to four felony counts of third-degree criminal mischief.
In pleading guilty, he admitted causing more than $250 damage to each of four parked vehicles in Baldwinsville on April 24 and 25, 2009.
Assistant District Attorney Scott Wells said McGill had been accused of damaging about 20 vehicles by slashing tires and smashing windows in the crime spree. Charges from all those incidents and from an earlier burglary are covered by today's guilty plea, the prosecutor said.
Wells said that's because McGill agreed to make full restitution of slightly more than $3,000 to cover all the victims.
At the time of the incidents, McGill was 16 and living on West Genesee Street in Baldwinsville.
Wells said there did not appear to be any specific motive for McGill's conduct. The defendant also apparently acted alone in carrying out the vandalism spree, the prosecutor said.
The plea deal calls for Fahey to sentence McGill Oct. 27 to five years' probation with youthful offender treatment removing the felony convictions from his permanent record.