DeKALB – A retired NIU professor was arrested last week and charged with throwing bags of cat feces at homes with pro-Donald Trump flags in their yards.
On Thursday, DeKalb resident James A. Walker was arrested and charged with 13 counts of littering from a motor vehicle and 13 counts of disorderly conduct.
Walker retired in 2018 and is a former NIU professor in the department of Geology and Environmental Sciences.
Walker declined to comment for this story.
For more than nine months, police received complaints of someone littering from a vehicle, according to the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office. Each littering incident involved a vehicle slowing down and throwing a plastic bag of cat feces onto the yards of the victim’s homes.
Each incident involved the victim displaying a Donald Trump flag in their yard.
According to the press release, the locations of these incidents were in DeKalb, Genoa and Kingston counties. Five homes were targeted and three were targeted on multiple occasions.
The most recent incident took place on New Year’s Day. Two different vehicles were identified as involved in the incidents. Police linked the incidents to Walker after the New Year’s Day victim recorded the license plate of one of the vehicles and police identified Walker as the vehicle’s owner.
Walker is expected to appear in court on Feb. 24 at the DeKalb County Courthouse.
Northern Star writer Skyler Kisellus contributed to this report.