Vandals smash windows of around 40 cars overnight in several Rochester neighborhoods
ROCHESTER, N.Y. – Rochester police say around 40 cars were smashed overnight in several different neighborhoods. Chief Investigative Reporter Berkeley Brean drove through those neighborhoods and saw the damage. He started on Oxford Street just off East Avenue.
Nolan Maines woke up to find the drivers’ side windows shattered.
Nolan Maines, car vandalized on Oxford St.: “It looks like nothing was stolen from any car, anyone I’ve talked to. Looks like someone came by with a hammer and broke everyone’s window and walked away.”
Berkeley Brean, News10NBC: “You woke up to this?”
Nolan Maines: “Yes.”
Berkeley Brean: “And how is that for a wake up call?”
Nolan Maines: “I was getting ready to go to work and saw both windows smashed. Everything was in chaos.”
An alert viewer shared video from Oxford. She counted the damaged cars.
News10NBC found car after car damaged too. Sometimes the console was open suggesting whoever broke the window rummaged through the inside. Ring camera video around 2 a.m. on Oxford shows a police car with lights on. But the video didn’t appear to catch the vandalism.
Berkeley Brean: “This is an act of vandalism but what does this do to your life?”
Nolan Maines: “After talking to insurance I have to wait two weeks just to replace the windows. So that’s two weeks where it’s going to be tough to drive in the winter. If I do want to drive it’s going to be freezing cold.”
This is Cypress Street off South Avenue. Berkeley found vandalized cars here and around the corner. They also hit the car of a woman named Marisa.
Marisa, car vandalized on Cypress Street: “Well it appears that the driver’s side window was smashed out. Vandalism.”
Berkeley Brean: “And you feel what?”
Marisa: “Very unsafe because this probably now the 11th time this has happened without any justice.”
Marisa shared video from the same street last February. It shows someone slashing the tires of her car. She’s looking for video of the vandalism overnight. Police left a flyer in her car, with a crime report number and phone numbers to call. The same papers were found in other vandalized cars on Oxford Street where Nolan Maines woke up to this.
Nolan Maines: “Called insurance, called out of work just so I could deal with this. A great Friday morning wake up.”
RPD says a white Kia could be responsible or play a role in all this vandalism. They found it about a mile away in a neighborhood on the other side of the Genesee River. RPD says it’s been reported stolen.
Police say if you found damage to your car and you don’t have one of those police fliers, call 911 or 311 and report it.
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