Charles Arthur Stark, 42, pleaded guilty Wednesday to willful injury to government property and was ordered to pay $743.56 in restitution, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Boise.
Stark also was sentenced to five years of probation and must complete 100 hours of community service.
Stark was arrested Jan. 3 after federal investigators saw a YouTube video showing a person later identified as Stark spray painting the James A. McClure Federal Building in Boise on Jan. 2. The U.S. Courthouse also was vandalized.
The phrases spray painted on the federal building included, “FU 1867 I’m not a terrorist” and “FU 1867 NDAA I’m not a terrorist.”
Stark, who was living at the Occupy Boise encampment at the time, confessed to investigators, according to the criminal complaint.
He had another man shoot the footage of the spray-painting incident and post it online. A message posted with the video indicated that Stark was protesting President Barack Obama's signing of the National Defense Authorization Act. Human rights advocates opposed the law because it gives the military greater power to detain and interrogate U.S. citizens and others, according to The Washington Post.
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