Ever since Anthony Squadrito plowed down mangroves for a view of the Loxahatchee River, the Jupiter homeowner has paid a thicket of fines: $125,000 and mounting. He also became Florida’s first successful state felony prosecution for destroying the plant systems. Squadrito, 38, pleaded guilty to felony criminal mischief for the 2001 chopping of a 300-foot swath of publicly owned forest directly behind his home. He hired a firm to plow through the plants, creating a bowling alley view of the river from his back yard. Trimming of the trees has been legally controlled since the Florida Mangrove Protection Act was enacted in 1985. Cutting mangroves remains a misdemeanor violation. But Squadrito was charged with felony mischief because of how much mangrove he had destroyed.