Church windows broken in Saturday incident

Columbus police say they arrested a man who was breaking the windows out of East Columbus United Methodist Church Saturday afternoon.

When officers arrived at the Indiana Avenue church at about 3:50 p.m. Saturday, they could hear glass breaking. Officers discovered 54-year-old Trinidad J. Padilla holding a rock and bleeding from his head and hands.

He was taken to Columbus Regional Hospital for treatment and then to the jail on preliminary charges of criminal mischief and criminal trespassing.