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Amanda Butterfield reporting A trail of vandalism in Ogden leaves dozens of cars damaged, and now police officers are working to find the unlikely group that did it. They believe a group of young girls has been taking a baseball bat to dozens of cars in Ogden neighborhoods for weeks.
Albert Warner's windshield was smashed. He was out of town earlier this week when he got a call from Ogden police saying his car, and up to 40 others in his neighborhood, had been vandalized. "I understand they had two baseball bats and rocks," Warner said.
Ogden police say they know who did it, and it's not the suspects they usually deal with. "That's a little unusual. The oldest is a 22-year-old female. The youngest is 17, that we talked to. They're not your typical, you would think, gang member-type people that would be involved in something like this," said Lt. Tony Fox, with the Ogden Police Department.
Fox says for the past several weeks, folks have been reporting vandalized cars; and one victim was able to get a partial license plate number of the suspects.
Then a few nights ago, Ogden's Crime Reduction Unit saw a car matching the license plate number the victim had reported and pulled the car over. Three girls were inside, and they admitted to vandalizing cars and said a couple of other girls were involved too.
"We haven't made any arrests yet," Fox said. That's because police are still trying to track down and interview everyone involved.
Meanwhile, Warner says he isn't too surprised the vandals are girls. "I think if it was males, maybe it could have been broken totally out--with the force of a male as opposed to a female," he said.
He's upset because insurance isn't going to cover replacing his windshield. "It's really tough now to come up with a couple hundred bucks to replace a windshield," Warner said.
Again, no arrests have been made. But once they are, the girls could face felony charges for the damage they caused.
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