Man ticketed for Tumalo Falls vandalism ID’d

Published 12:14 am Sunday, September 13, 2015

The U.S. Attorney’s Office today released the name of the man fined as part of a vandalism case last spring at Tumalo Falls.

Scott G. Duke was ticketed for “aiding and abetting damaging any natural feature or other property of the United States,” according to the ticket. The Central Violations Bureau redacted the man’s address and did not give his age.

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“The Central Violations Bureau has not released these additional pieces of information,” wrote Gerri Badden, a spokeswoman with the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Oregon.

A Prineville man caused an Internet frenzy this past May when he posted a photo to his Facebook page of a family he said he caught vandalizing the railing at Tumalo Falls, a popular hiking spot west of Bend. Facebook users went on to share the photo more than 64,000 times.

Brett Nelson, 41, said he was hiking with a friend May 2 when they came across a boy and a girl etching their initials into the railing at an overlook downstream of Tumalo Falls. Nelson and his friend asked them to stop and Nelson said they received a rude reaction from a man who was with the kids. His friend then took a photo of them. In the photo the boy and girl mugged for the camera while the man looked at the camera and held a snack .

While the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced Wednesday that a fine and restitution had been paid in the case, it did not initially release the name of the man ticketed.

— Dylan J. Darling

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