Ronald Bost, 47, of no fixed address, was apprehended in Arlington County, Virginia, on Thursday, August 16th, on a warrant for destruction of property out of the District of Columbia. Bost is the primary suspect in a US Park Police investigation into numerous hate/bias-related vandalism cases in the district and in Virginia. Arlington County police arrested Bost on the warrant, then contacted the USPP in response to a recently released information bulletin specifying that he was being sought in this investigation. USPP detectives took him into custody. Bost is suspected of vandalizing National Park Service property in the warrant — specifically, writing hate/bias-related words on trash receptacles along the parkway’s bike path. Bost has been a suspect in 14 recent USPP hate/bias-related vandalism cases involving swastikas and pornography. He’s been arrested by the Park Police several times since 1997 for similar crimes. [
