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By Mary Ann Kuhn
Rappahannock News Writer
Solving the Montpelier vandalism case was, as Rappahannock County Sheriff Larry Sherertz says, an “odyssey” that took investigators from his office and the Virginia State Police to five other counties and a few states in their joint eight month quest for the truth.
And when the investigation came down to two arrests on Jan. 12 with charges pending against a third teenager, there was an irony of all ironies.
The mothers of the two arrested ) teenagers happened to be some of the outraged residents who earlier had contributed to the reward fund for the arrest and conviction of those responsible for the May destruction of Montpelier, an historic 18th century mansion.
There was also another development: one of the teenagers arrested is Alexander T. Hart, 18, of Hume, whose late father is world renown sculptor Frederick E. Hart, who died from lung cancer at the age of 56 on Aug. 13, 1999.
Alexander Hart, who goes by ‘Xander’, was charged with felony destruction of property and grand larceny after investigators executed a search warrant at his home and found two black Derby riding hats that authorities said were ‘antiques’
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