SUAMICO, WI (WTAQ) – Authorities are looking for those responsible for a recent wave of vandalism to mailboxes.
Brown County Sheriff’s Deputy Justin Raska says 84 mailboxes were smashed in Suamico in the early hours of Sunday.
“We don’t exactly have a motive. Typically with frequent damages to mailboxes, it seems to be kids, either still in high or recently out of high school, that quite honestly don’t have anything else to do.”
Raska says all of the incidents likely occurred in just a two-hour span, between 1-3 am Sunday.
“It’s obviously not just one person. It’s most likely someone driving a vehicle and someone else hanging out the passenger side of the vehicle. We think it’s probably a baseball bat that was involved.”
The deputy notes the damage is quite costly to the homeowners.
“(There was) dents to the sides of mailboxes, especially the metal mailboxes. We’ve seen mailboxes completely clean off the post. I’ve seen a couple wooden mailboxes that were completely shattered.”
Likely related, Raska says similar complaints came from Howard and Pittsfield earlier in the weekend.
“Those though were only probably three, four, five, maybe ten mailboxes total between the two reports. This one was significantly more than that, and it seems like it was isolated just to the Suamico area.”
Early Monday, there were also reports of several cars spray painted in Green Bay, with eight of the incidents happening in the 1400 block of Weisner Street.
Anyone with information about any of these crimes is asked to call the Brown County Sheriff’s Office at 920-448-4200.
