On Sunday morning, Sept. 21, Jason Eugea was walking around the grounds of the Cross of Our Lord Jesus Christ in Groom, as he always does, and he thought he saw some trash in the parking lot.

"When I got closer, I noticed that instead of regular trash, I found cement blocks covered fully in silver paint with illegible pink writing. Then I saw four of the granite car barriers which had numbers on them, painted in white. The numbers were 8647,” said Eugea, the administrator of the Cross in Groom. “I went on about cleaning, knowing that visitors would start arriving soon.”

Eugea also runs the gift shop at the grounds. He said he used graffiti cleaning solvent to scrub the paint off the barriers as best he could, but some of the paint soaked into the porous granite.

“I may have to sand the

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