Case of vandalism still open
No resolution yet in graffiti at monument
The case against the itinerant artist suspected of leaving her "Creepytings" mark in several Western national parks and at Colorado National Monument remains open and unresolved, authorities said.
Casey Nocket told National Park Service officials in 2014 that she left an example of her work in the monument.
Officials later found a caricature of a woman with a cigarette dangling from her lips and tendrils of smoke climbing up the face of a sandstone boulder on a trail into Monument Canyon.
The trail crew found the gold glitter-pen drawing — emblazoned with Nocket's "creepytings '14" signature — on a boulder in October after Nocket began cooperating with investigators.
The Park Service said in 2014 that Nocket, a 21-year-old self-styled artist from New York, was a suspect in vandalism cases spanning eight units of the United States National Park system.
"The case has not been resolved and is still open," a National Park Service spokesman said.
Nocket had posted photos of her drawings and paintings, as well as photos of herself in several national parks on social media.
The images were scrubbed soon after the investigation was announced.
Images believed connected to Nocket were found in Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado; Zion and Canyonlands national parks in Utah; Yosemite, Death Valley and Joshua Tree national parks in California; and Crater Lake National Park in Oregon.
Nocket stayed in the campground at Colorado National Monument on Sept. 13, 2014. She signed a receipt identifying herself and a companion, whose name looked like "Dan Seely," Colorado National Monument Chief Ranger Mark Davison said after the vandalism was discovered.
Davison at the time told The Daily Sentinel, "She was proud of it," but that Nocket's attitude changed after she was confronted by investigators.
Her exploits in 2014 were imitated by others, who took to social media sites like Instagram to share their handiwork.
By contrast, also in 2014, two Utah men, Glenn Taylor, 45, and David Hall, 42, were sentenced to a year of probation and ordered to pay fines and restitution for dislodging an ancient rock formation at Goblin Valley State Park in central Utah.
Both men were originally facing felony mischief charges for toppling the formation, estimated to be about 170 million years old.
The Associated Press contributed to this story.
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