Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Vandals Bomb Leoma Mailboxes
Vandals struck overnight Sunday, placing makeshift “bombs” inside the mailboxes of at least two residents of the Leoma area.
Deputies with the Lawrence County Sheriff’s Department were summoned to a home situated at 28 Price Jenkins Road shortly after 9:00 a.m. The male resident reported his wife discovered the damage when she returned home from work around 6:30 that morning.
She told her husband someone had torn down the mailbox and he went to investigate. He found that the box had actually exploded. He told deputies that he had heard a loud vehicle sometime between 10:30 and 12:30. The driver, he reported, slowed near his home then “took off.”
Deputies reported finding a small Crossman air canister at the scene.
Around 2:00 p.m. deputies were dispatched to 279 Old Florence Pulaski Road where a resident had discovered similar damages. There, deputies report the mailbox had been blown off the post.
A carbon dioxide canister was also found at the scene of the second vandalism. The victim reported he had not hear nor seen anything out of the ordinary.
Anyone who has information regarding the vandalism incidents is urged to contact the sheriff’s department at 762-3626.
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