Actress Vanessa Hudgens has agreed to pay a $1,000 fine after defacing national park property over Valentine’s Day Weekend. Hudgens carved the message “Austin + Vanessa”, for her boyfriend Austin Butler, into a red rock at Coconino National Forest park in Arizona on Valentine’s Day and got in trouble with authorities after sharing a picture of the carving on Instagram. According to the Associated Press Hudgens agreed to pay a $1,0000 fine in order to resolve a citation she was issued on a misdemeanor count of damaging a natural feature on US Forest Service land. The $1,000 will be used to remove the etching, by volunteer group Friends of the Forest. The agreement was signed off on by a federal magistrate on April 19, but the details had not been made public until now. Authorities were alerted to the illegal act when Hudgens shared a photo of the etching on Instagram, which she then quickly deleted. "She was caught in the act because she publicized it and she's famous," Coconino National Forest Service spokesman Brady Smith said. ”I'm sure there are others who are not famous and publicized it and we've never known.”
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