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Speaker Keeps Promise; Presents $25,000 To Man For Turning In Statue-Buster
City Council Speaker Peter F. Vallone followed through on a promise made last year in awarding a check worth $25,000 to Bryant Hamilton for providing information leading to an arrest and conviction of a man found guilty of vandalizing several religious statues in Queens and Brooklyn, including the desecration of a statuie of St. Pius X in Canarsie. Speaker Vallone presented Hamilton and his two sons Danny and Bryant, Jr. with the reward money, which was raised through private donations. "It’s people like Bryant Hamilton who help to preserve our city’s greatest and most beautiful structures, said Speaker Vallone. "Because of his courage and vigilance to step forward, we have sent a message that we will not tolerate the desecration of religious monuments of any kind." Shortly after Hamilton came forward, Primus St. Croix of Brooklyn was apprehended in May of 2000 and confessed to assisting or personally chopping off the hands or decapitating over a dozen Catholic church statues. The $25,000 in reward money was combined with other smaller reward offers from the Police Department, the Brooklyn Diocese, the Anti-Defamation League and the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office. St. Croix was returned to his native Haiti, last year. Among the monuments he allegedly destroyed was a statue of St. Pius X, which stood in a grotto in front of the local Knights of Columbus council headquarters at 135 Conklin Avenue. The statue was never replaced and the K of C headquarters has since been relocated to East 94th Street near Avenue L.
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