DAYTON — The man accused of being a menace by downtown Dayton business owners for more than a decade may be going to prison.
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Mark Arden, 60, pleaded guilty to eight charges in connection with a downtown vandalism spree, leading to his most recent arrest in August.
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Dayton police and prosecutors say Arden damaged seven different businesses on Aug. 12.
One of those was the Teardrop Steakhouse. He then his a bookstore and several businesses in the Talbott Tower.
As shown on News Center 7 at 5:00, he pleaded guilty on Monday after being found competent to stand trial by a judge. The ruling came after psychological evaluations from three different doctors.
As News Center 7 previously reported, police records indicated that Dayton officers have either arrested or interacted with Arden more than 50 times over the last 10 years.
Arden will be sentenced in August. He could get anything from probation to seven years in prison.
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