A 34-year-old man is in custody after he broke in and vandalized the Logan Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
“He basically just said that he's upset with the church,” said Logan Police Capt. Curtis Hooley. “He was kind of rambling.”
Police were alerted shortly before 3:30 a.m. on Tuesday that windows had been broken at the annex to the temple, where members enter the building. According to church spokeswoman Irene Caso, the man “used an ax to damage the exterior” of the temple before breaking into the building.
When officers arrived, they entered and found damage on the first and second floors of the building, Hooley said, including “paintings torn off the walls” and doors that appear to have been pounded on with a fire extinguisher.