{"id":30899,"date":"2025-09-19T13:13:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T13:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/30899\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T13:13:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T13:13:08","slug":"18-year-old-confesses-to-vandalizing-fairport-harbor-free-little-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/30899\/","title":{"rendered":"18-year-old confesses to vandalizing Fairport Harbor free little library"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">FAIRPORT HARBOR, Ohio (WOIO) &#8211; An 18-year-old man confessed to destroying the books at the free little library and Fairport Harbor police said a \u201cconstructive resolution\u201d was reached.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">On Sept. 16, police discovered that pages from books were ripped out and thrown across a beach access ramp near Vine Street.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"Fairport Harbor free little library books torn apart, scattered down beach path\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1758287588_949_QZWTDNQT6ZBSTECEL3JZ37N6NI.jpg\" width=\"980\" height=\"1301\" \/>Fairport Harbor free little library books torn apart, scattered down beach path(Fairport Harbor Police Department)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Police said with the help of a tipster, they were able to identify the suspect.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The 18-year-old admitted his actions, immediately apologized and then wrote a written letter of apology to the library.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Instead of criminal charges, police said the man will cover the service department clean-up fees and volunteer his time at future beach clean-ups.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cWe believe this outcome reflects a positive resolution to the incident and demonstrates the strength of our community when we come together,\u201d posted Fairport Harbor police on Facebook.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 WOIO. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FAIRPORT HARBOR, Ohio (WOIO) &#8211; An 18-year-old man confessed to destroying the books at the free little library&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25915,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[21794,288,21790,93,21788,21789,61,60,21793,21791,21792],"class_list":{"0":"post-30899","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-beach","9":"tag-books","10":"tag-community-book-box","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-fairport-harbor","13":"tag-free-little-library","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-pages-torn-out","17":"tag-vandal","18":"tag-vandalism"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}