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Show Vandalism, Burglaries Continue To Plague Police, Townspeople Vandalism at the Moab Mo-ab Area Vocational Center Cen-ter Friday, March 21, resulted re-sulted in approximately $2,000 in damages, re-pored re-pored Chief of Police Mel Dalton this week. Nine hardwood doors and some windows were broken; and metal. containers con-tainers were bent as though the offenders were looking for money,.' he said. ' Family Drug was broken brok-en into and burglarized sometime during the night of March 22, when one or more persons broke through the roof of the storage room, took about $200 in drugs, and attempted at-tempted to open the drug safe, doing about $1,'"1 damage to safe and bunding. bun-ding. More vandalism occurred occur-red during the night of March 24 when 10 windows win-dows were broken at Helen He-len M. Knight Elemen- tary valued at between $60 and- $80. All 3 of these crimes are still under un-der investigation. A number of accidents were also investigated by Moab Police during the week. On March 20 on North Main a 1968 Chevrolet van driven by Alexis La-zaris La-zaris was hit by a 1970 Oldsmobile belonging to Kenny Nelson and driven by Albion Lawrence, causing' cau-sing' about $1600 damage to both vehicles. Officer Gene Migliori cited Lawrence Law-rence for improper left -turn." At 12:40 p.m. March 20, John David Zimmerman Zimmer-man backed his 1975 pickup pick-up into a 1974 Plymouth belonging to Randy Squires, Squir-es, which was parked in the Canyonlands Campground Camp-ground parking lot. $150 damage resulted to each vehicle. Zimmerman was cited for driving while under the influence of an intoxicating beverage. A 1968 Ford belonging to Harold Hutton was hit March 19, while it was parked in the High School parking lot, by a 1965 Ford driven by Debra Gonzales. The Hutton vehicle ve-hicle received about $125 damage. No citations were issued. On Mill Creek Drive on March 22 at 12:30 a.m., a 1972 Ford pickup belonging be-longing to Joe P. Bogner and driven by Marvin Ray-Matthews Ray-Matthews hit a 1972 Ford Torino belonging to Lor etta Traeger and driven by William Eugene Far-ge. Far-ge. The sideswipe accident acci-dent occurred as both vehicles ve-hicles were crossing the narrow Mill creek bridge. Neither driver was cited, and there was about $200 damage to the vehicles, reported investigating officer, of-ficer, Brent Duncan. On March 23 at 6:50 p.m. at the intersection of Main and First North, Earl Martin, driving a 1963 Buick, ran a red light and hit broadside a 1974 Ford pickup driven dri-ven by Lawrence Warden, totaling the Buick. Damage Dam-age to the pickup was estimated at $250, and Martin was cited by Officer Of-ficer Migliori for running run-ning a red light. Chief Dalton is attending attend-ing a Chiefs of Police Conference this week in St. George, and will return re-turn to Moab at the end of the week. |