FORT LAUDERDALE – The man accused of placing useless animals on the Parkland shooting memorial faced a judge on Monday.
Through the listening to, the decide set Robert Mondragon’s bond at $750,000.
On July 20th, a college crossing guard uncovered a useless duck with its upper body cavity minimize open on a bench at the MSD Memorial Yard, located outdoors Marjory Stoneman Douglas Superior College.
The subsequent day the university crossing guard identified a lifeless raccoon on the identical memorial bench, and on July 31, a deputy uncovered a lifeless opossum on the bench.
Sheriff’s investigators stated surveillance movie hyperlinks Mondragon, 29, to the dead animals.
Detectives stated they would later on find a image on Mondragon’s cellphone of him keeping a dead duck with its chest cavity lower open. Also, a different photo on his cell phone of a useless raccoon on the floorboard of the passenger’s side of his auto.
A research of his net historical past uncovered Mondragon’s obsession with college shooters, each serious and fictional, according to the sheriff’s business office
Mondragon was arrested very last thirty day period on charges of getting rid of or disfiguring a tomb or monument, violation of probation for battery and indecent publicity, and violation of a threat security buy.
If he posts bail and is released, he will be confined to his home, there will be no use of electronic devices, and he will have to continue to be absent from the faculty.
He is thanks back again in courtroom in December.
