Vandals

HARRODSBURG - Harrodsburg police are seeking information about damage to a 2004 Dodge Ram left at the B&B Truck Stop parking lot. Someone broke the front windshield and created dents all around the hood and cab of the truck. The amount of the damage is said to be about $1,500-2,000. Police say the damage occured sometime between Oct. 10 and Friday. The charge is set at first-degree criminal mischief. Anyone with information is asked to call the Harrodsburg Police Department at (859)

A possible bomb scare on Bybee Road early this morning appears to be the work of vandals intent on damaging mailboxes. Clark County Sheriff Berl Perdue Jr. said deputies recovered a half-dozen of what they believe to be military-style battery packs, which were thrown at mailboxes between the 2400 and 5000 blocks of Bybee Road. The packs had wires coming from them, he said. Not knowing what they were, the Kentucky State Police bomb squad was called in. "We're just being safe and not sorry," Perdue said.

Dear editor, I am writing this letter so people will be aware that not all vandalism happens when it is dark or when no one is around. In Danville on Monday at around 3 p.m., someone broke the passenger front door glass out of my car as it was parked at the back door area of O'Reilly Auto Parts while I was right inside the door working. They knocked the glass completely out and stole my purse and billfold, which were lying under a sweater in my front seat. I was in total shock that such a thing could take place right by the door we go in and out of all day long.

HARRODSBURG - Free-wheeling vandals drove a car onto Mercer County's high school football field late Saturday evening, leaving a trail of $600-800 in damage, police and school officials said. Though an exact time of the crime hasn't been determined, Mercer County Athletic Director Todd Davis said the activity must have taken place late into Saturday or even early Sunday. Davis was at the football facility breaking down film late Saturday but saw no suspicious behavior. The damage was discovered on Sunday by football coach Marty Jaggers when he too came to watch game film.

HARRODSBURG - Billy Hayden of 451 Cardwell St. reported to Harrodsburg police Wednesday that someone broke a window in his 2003 Chevrolet Malibu while it was parked in front of his residence. Estimated damage to the vehicle was more than $500, according to a report by Patrolman Granville Peyton. Police are asking anyone with information regarding the incident to contact Harrodsburg Police Department.

Owners of Cassell Creek Golf Course found the marks of people intent on destruction Tuesday morning. Eight of the 18 greens bore tire marks and damage from people cutting doughnuts with golf carts. One golf cart was destroyed. Four others were damaged. Surveillance video showed subjects trying to break into a building, according to course owner Andrew McCord. "Evidently they were taking carts and ramming them into each other," McCord said. "Their whole intent was to tear stuff up. " The No. 3 green received the most damage from carts, but has been re-sodded and rolled.

July 15, 1983 Heavy lightning struck power lines Thursday, blacking out the southern and eastern parts of Winchester for about 35 minutes. Businesses along Boonesboro Road and the Bypass were disrupted when electricity went out shortly before 4 p.m. Many residences also lost power. Vandals damaged more than 20 gravestones in the Winchester Cemetery Thursday night, the second major act of vandalism at the cemetery in the last year. The damaged stones were reported to cemetery Superintendent Lee Roy Davis today by an early morning visitor to the cemetery.

LANCASTER - An investigation is under way regarding vandalism at Garrard County High School last week, the Lancaster Police Department said. According to Garrard County Superintendent Raymond Woolsey, a classroom and the book room at the high school were damaged by vandals. Woolsey said the responsible individuals broke into the rooms and set off the fire extinguishers. The Lancaster Police Department did not have any comment at this time. Woolsey acknowledged the investigation is on-going, adding part of the crime may have been caught on videotape.

GRAVEL SWITCH - Several hundred dollars in damage was done Wednesday night to the yard and exterior of Penn's Store, according to the longtime owner of the historic landmark that straddles the Boyle-Casey county line. The damage apparently was caused by two males in a pickup truck, said owner Jeanne Lane. The truck was driven around the circle drive and yard in front of the store, the "intense" motion of its tires showering the porch with gravel, she said. "The force of the way the truck was driven caused gravel from the part-gravel and part-asphalt drive to fly toward the porch, breaking two windows, shattering the glass that encased a large frame with newspaper clips about the store and covering the porch, chairs, flowers and herbs with rock and white powder," she said.

HARRODSBURG - After a little more than a week, they're still talking about the streaker who ran around June 2 at Anderson-Dean skate park. When park manager Mark Bryant confronted the naked teen, he simply responded, "'It's a guy thing,'" Bryant said at the Tuesday park board meeting. "I didn't do that when I was 16. " After recent focus on skate park vandalism problems at Anderson-Dean Community Park, the activity at the skating facility has become a bit milder. "It's calmed down the last couple weeks," Bryant said.