DETROIT, MI – Three suburban teens are due back in court Monday on charges related to spray painting graffiti on two downtown Detroit buildings in June.

Prosecutor Kym L. Worthy charged the Grosse Pointe Woods teens – Isabella Mary Meteer, 18; Mackenzie Lynn Snitgen, 17; and Mary Elizabeth Harder, 17 – with malicious destruction of a building causing between $1,000 and $20,000 in damage, a felony punishable by up to five years in prison.

They're accused of spray-painting buildings in the 40 block of Michigan and in 1100 block of Griswold in Detroit about 9:30 p.m. on June 22.

In a column Sunday, Detroit News' Nolan Finley argues that the girls should "spend at least a little time wearing orange jumpsuits."

"Prosecutors should resist going easy on these girls," he writes. "Graffiti damages the city's self-worth and is a serious crime against the comeback of Detroit. It should be treated as such, no matter whose finger was on the paint nozzle."

Finley argues that if three black kids from Detroit took a "joy ride out to Grosse Pointe" and vandalized storefronts that the "community would be mad as hell."

The three teens were arrested following footage of the girls from business mogul Dan Gilbert's elaborate security system being released to the public, and Gilbert asking his Quicken Loans employees to help identify the girls. Gilbert's Rock Ventures owns a building that shares an alley with the buildings that were vandalized.

The graffiti included some vulgar language, "welcome to Detroit" and "Izzy."

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