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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Two former Boy Scout leaders accused of toppling a 170 million-year-old rock formation in Utah last year have pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges.
Glenn Taylor and David Hall pleaded guilty on Tuesday afternoon in Utah's Seventh District Court in Castle Dale.
The Salt Lake Tribune reports (http://bit.ly/1lMae0E) the men were sentenced to probation. If they meet its requirements, the offenses will later be removed from their records.
A video shot by Hall in October and posted on YouTube shows Taylor dislodging a mushroom-shaped sandstone pillar at Utah's Goblin Valley State Park.
They claimed it might have been ready to fall and kill a visitor. Both were later stripped of their Boy Scout positions.
Parks officials have said the rock formation had been standing for much of human history, if not longer.
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