Crime & Safety
Man Arrested For Damaging Atlanta Police Cars: Authorities (Updated)
Vandals attacked several police cruisers earlier this week across the street from a Midtown precinct.
ATLANTA -- Atlanta police officers reporting to work earlier this week were shocked when they discovered that several APD cruisers were damaged.
A vandal smashed the windows on seven police cars and a police van parked at the corner of Peachtree Street and Pine Street across from a homeless shelter, WAGA-TV reports.
Police arrested a man found inside the van, a spokesman told WSBTV.
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"The person was under the influence of narcotics and we believe it was crack cocaine, and he just went on a binge of destruction," Police Sgt. Warren Pickard told the TV station.
A printing business next to the lot also had its window broken, the TV station said. A police precinct is nearby.
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Pickard told WSB that the man has been arrested about 18 times.
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