Sheriff’s deputies are searching for two suspects who slashed 29 tires early this morning in the Piney Creek East subdivision, authorities say.
The suspects are described as two “short” males wearing blue jeans and gray hooded sweatshirts, according to a news release by Arapahoe County Sheriff Grayson Robinson.
Deputy Matthew Henderson responded to a vandalism call on the 5800 block of South Espana Street at 4:38 a.m. and discovered that someone had punctured car tires, the news release says.
The suspects had fled on foot.
Henderson also found that tires on vehicles parked in driveways and on the street were also slashed on the 5800 block of South Danube Circle, South Danube Street and South Espana Street, the news release says.
The total damage was estimated at $5,800.
Anyone with information about the vandalism is urged to call the sheriff’s office at 303-795-4711.
It was the second recent tire slashing rampage in the Denver metro area.
A man who admits he slashed the tires on at least 46 vehicles in Boulder blamed his mom, speeding police cars, radiation from Rocky Flats and being forced to wear braces on his teeth.
Boulder police arrested Alexander Kabelis, 31, Thursday night, after he slashed a tire on a police Suburban parked outside a police substation on University Hill.
Kabelis was arrested after Officer Bryan Parch saw him crouching near the Suburban and heard one of the tires hissing loudly.
Boulder Police Department spokeswoman Sarah Huntley said Kabelis admitted puncturing the tires of nine police and sheriff’s vehicles and 37 other cars in Boulder, causing $12,936 in damage.
The tire slashings began April 24, but escalated earlier this week, Huntley said.
Kirk Mitchell: 303-954-1206 or kmitchell@denverpost.com
