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May 17, 2008
Vandal punctures tires on 30 cars
Montgomery offers reward for conviction
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Someone punctured tires on more than 30 cars in Montgomery on Thursday night, and the town is offering a $2,000 reward to anyone who has information leading to the arrest and conviction of the vandal.

"We are still adding them up," said Montgomery Police Officer Pete Lopes. "Sometimes it takes a while for the air to bleed out. We are talking in excess of 45 tires punctured on over 30 cars."

About half the cars are owned by West Virginia University Institute of Technology in Montgomery, he said. The cars were parked along First Avenue or Fayetteville Pike, which run parallel to one another.

All of the cars parked in the WVU Tech physical plant parking lot along First Avenue were hit, said Scott Hurst, associate campus provost for the school. The cost of the damages is in the thousands of dollars for the school, he said.

"It's an area of about three blocks. They didn't get every single car. It's sporadic," Lopez said.

Lopez said he believes some owners haven't reported the vandalism yet because their tires are still holding air. He believes it happened sometime between 8 p.m. Thursday and 8 a.m. Friday.

Police have a couple of leads but are looking for more, Lopez said.

"Based on the number of vehicles we think it was a random act of vandalism," he said.

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