San Diego school police are offering $1,000 for information leading to the arrest of the person who glued more than 200 doors shut at a local high school.
The person went around to doors across Patrick Henry High School in the early morning hours of May 26 and applied a sticky substance, causing $70,000 worth of damage, the San Diego Unified School District Police Department said, according to KNSD-TV.
Student Christopher Guzman told KABC-TV that as he arrived at school later that morning, he “looked around. There’s all these teachers on the floor. They had these little — I don’t know what they were doing, but they were picking at the locks.”
Some students at the school say they believe the incident, which happened during finals week, was a senior prank, but police have not determined that that is the case.
“It is typical to see senior pranks, but those are more lighthearted, funny, more clever, but nothing to this extreme of damaging over $70,000 worth of property,” school district police Sgt. Robert Bonilla, a detective, told KABC-TV.
The suspect was seen on surveillance footage wearing a face mask, hooded sweatshirt with a “B” on it, and baggy pants and sneakers, and was holding a container of the substance, photos the police shared with the Times of San Diego show.
The images also show the suspect arriving in and then fleeing in a sedan with tinted windows.
Anyone able to identify the suspect or the vehicle he was driving is asked to call 619-929-7430.
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