GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) – Five teenagers have been arrested for spray painting profanity throughout a Green Bay neighborhood last week and police say the boys told officers they did it because they were bored.
Joe Walton, who had vulgar words spray painted on his vehicle, tells WLUK….
“I just hope they get time in jail, I really do. They deserve it. I know they are juveniles, but we’re all kids at one time. You don’t do this kind of stuff.”
Police say vehicles, sidewalks, and road signs in the John Muir Park neighborhood were damaged.
Four of the boys arrested are 14 years old, and one is 13 years old.
Walton isn’t optimistic he’ll ever see any money for the damage caused to his vehicle.
“I’ve got insurance. The adjuster was here. We’ll find out more tomorrow or the next couple of days, exactly the cost. He said the whole vehicle has to be totally repainted.”
Walton says police told him 16 cars in the neighborhood were damaged.
However, police Captain Kevin Warych says that number is changing because the boys are confessing to graffiti that was never even reported.
“When a group of kids get together and they have nothing to do, usually bad things happen.”
Authorities do not believe the suspects in the west side case are involved in other crimes throughout the area.
Since July 21st, Green Bay has had 43 complaints of stolen lawn ornaments. A majority of those have been on the city’s far east side.
There’s also been dozens of damaged mailboxes throughout various Brown County municipalities. Suamico had more than 80 damaged mailboxes reported in one weekend earlier this month.
Warych says the exact reasons why this is occurring is yet to be known.
