--- title: Donald Trump's Hollywood Walk of Fame Star: Arrest Made description: Los Angeles police on Thursday arrested the man who destroyed Donald Trump’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame canonical: https://time.com/4548269/donald-trump-hollywood-star-destroyed-arrest/ author: Abigail Abrams article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-10-27T19:15:11.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-03-31T10:20:18.565Z article:section: Politics og:title: Police Arrest Man Who Says He Smashed Donald Trump's Walk of Fame Star og:description: The man had said he would turn himself in og:url: https://time.com/4548269/donald-trump-hollywood-star-destroyed-arrest/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1365ae9aa81d3dd2/6988abdfab6d77e6866abb94/donald-trump-hollywood-walk-of-fame-star-destroyed-hammer-arrest.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: Trump Star Vandalized og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Police Arrest Man Who Says He Smashed Donald Trump's Walk of Fame Star twitter:description: The man had said he would turn himself in twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1365ae9aa81d3dd2/6988abdfab6d77e6866abb94/donald-trump-hollywood-walk-of-fame-star-destroyed-hammer-arrest.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Police Arrest Man Who Says He Smashed Donald Trump's Star on Hollywood Walk of Fame > Sponsored content. 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Richard Vogel—AP by [Abigail Abrams](https://time.com/author/abigail-abrams/) ## Abigail Abrams Oct 27, 2016 7:15 PM UTC Los Angeles police on Thursday arrested the man who [destroyed Donald Trump’s star](http://time.com/4546122/donald-trump-hollywood-walk-of-fame-star-destroyed/) on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. James Otis, a Beverly Hills resident, previously [told Deadline](http://deadline.com/2016/10/donald-trump-hollywood-walk-of-fame-star-destroyed-vandals-1201842842/) that he was behind the vandalism. Dressed as a construction worker, Otis said he took a sledgehammer and a pick-ax to the star shortly before 6 a.m. on Wednesday. He spoke about his negative feelings toward the Republican presidential nominee, telling the [Los Angeles _Times_](http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-trump-vandalism-20161026-snap-story.html) that he did not like Trump’s behavior. “I just sort of had enough with Mr. Trump’s aggressive language toward women and his behavior, his sexual violence with women and against women,” Otis said. Otis planned to turn himself in on Thursday, the [Los Angeles _Times_ reported](http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-trump-starpdestroyed-20161027-story.html), but he wanted to hold a press conference at the scene of the crime before doing so. Police foiled this plan, arresting Otis on suspicion of smashing the star, according to the _Times_. Police estimated the damage to the star would cost about $2,500, which means Otis could face a felony vandalism charge that could land him in jail for up to three years. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4548269/donald-trump-hollywood-star-destroyed-arrest/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4548269/donald-trump-hollywood-star-destroyed-arrest/"},"headline":"Police Arrest Man Who Says He Smashed Donald Trump's Star on Hollywood Walk of Fame","datePublished":"2016-10-27T19:15:11.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-31T10:20:18.565Z","description":"The man had said he would turn himself in","url":"https://time.com/4548269/donald-trump-hollywood-star-destroyed-arrest/","keywords":["Donald Trump"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1365ae9aa81d3dd2/6988abdfab6d77e6866abb94/donald-trump-hollywood-walk-of-fame-star-destroyed-hammer-arrest.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Abigail Abrams","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/abigail-abrams/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1365ae9aa81d3dd2/6988abdfab6d77e6866abb94/donald-trump-hollywood-walk-of-fame-star-destroyed-hammer-arrest.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Trump Star Vandalized","caption":"Trump Star Vandalized","creditText":"Richard Vogel—AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/donald-trump/","name":"Donald Trump"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4548269/donald-trump-hollywood-star-destroyed-arrest/","name":"Police Arrest Man Who Says He Smashed Donald Trump's Star on Hollywood Walk of Fame"}}]}] ```