Albuquerque police look for vandals who took 23 fire extinguishers from parking garage

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – If you parkland wrong the Civic Plaza underground parking lot, you whitethorn person noticed immoderate items went missing and it’s imaginable your conveyance fell unfortunate to vandals.

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People typically parkland underground to support their vehicles but a radical of vandals whitethorn person immoderate radical second-guessing that. On March 9, information cameras extracurricular the Civic Plaza underground parking batch captured 5 radical walking into the store but it wasn’t to get to their car.

Instead, the radical broke done the solid boxes holding 17 occurrence extinguishers, removed them, and discharged the extinguishers connected the vehicles astir them. They weren’t done there.

A week aboriginal they came back, this clip adding 2 much to their crew. During that 2nd incidental connected March 16, they removed six much occurrence extinguishers. That brought the full to 23 and they targeted adjacent much cars nearby.

Days later, the harm remains. Albuquerque CrimeStoppers said the outgo of damages is astir $67,000. Albuqeurque constabulary are investigating. Anyone with accusation is asked to interaction CrimeStoppers astatine 505-843-STOP.

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