If the Avon Police Department had a nickel for every comment it received on a recent post detailing the destruction of cameras in town, it would nearly have enough to pay for one of the $1,000 camera poles.
On Saturday morning, two automated speed enforcement camera poles on Avon Road were destroyed, one speed camera was stolen, a light pole was destroyed and a Flock license plate reader camera mounted at that location was stolen.
The light pole replacement is expected to cost the town about $6,500, the speed camera poles will cost an estimated $1,000 apiece; the Flock camera will cost $2,500 and the speed camera will cost $5,000, labor not included.
Those numbers put the crimes, which the police are treating as two separate incidents, at the level of a felony, said Police Chief Greg Daly, and the town is currently investigating. In an effort to receive any information related to these crimes, the town put out a Facebook post about them, which received more than 17,000 comments in the days that followed.
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