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Arrest made in Bradley church vandalism

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photo Deputies are looking for this man who wrote the numbers 6-6-6 on the doors of a Bradley County church,

An arrest has been made in the vandalism of a Bradley County church reported on Friday.

Dale Dockery, 52, was identified as the vandalism suspect in an investigation into someone writing “6-6-6” on an unidentified church in the Charleston, Tennessee, area of Bradley County, according to sheriff’s office spokesman Adam Lewis.

In the Charleston incident Friday afternoon, a security camera videotaped the man who wrote the numbers on the church doors. The church asked not to be identified.

On Wednesday, someone also wrote the numbers at GraceWorks Church on Lee Highway.

The numbers are associated with Satan in the Christian faith and identified as the “The Number of the Beast” in the Bible’s Book of Revelation.