The young man who stole the head off a State Capitol statue during Madison’s violent summer of 2020 is not going to prison.
A judge yesterday sentenced 36-year-old Rodney Clendening to probation instead. Clendening pleaded guilty to stealing the head from the Hans Christian Heg statue. He was originally facing felony charges, but prosecutors allowed him to plead to a misdemeanor count of theft. His probation is supposed to last a year, but the judge said it can end earlier if Clendening pays restitution.
