A Bronx man who was convicted of scrawling vile racist graffiti with black marker at the African Burial Ground Memorial in Lower Manhattan and sentenced to 30 days of home confinement has been arrested again — this time for ducking the Probation Department when they were looking to fit him with an ankle monitor.
Ivan Nieves, who was convicted of vandalism in April and sentenced to home confinement and two years of probation last month, was required to get in contact with the Probation Department about getting on location monitoring, but he didn’t take their calls, according to the U.S. Attorney’s office in Manhattan.
According to court papers, Nieves was arrested on Thursday morning and brought before a federal magistrate judge. Attorneys for Nieves did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
On Nov. 1, Nieves was walking by the monument, which commemorates the African slaves who were buried at the site in the 17th and 18th centuries, and wrote “Kill N——” on an informational sign entitled “A Place of Remembrance.”
Prior to trial, Nieves’ attorneys had tried to float the argument that the racist graffiti was protected by the First Amendment.



