Boy admits breaking garage windows, damaging vehicles in Wyomissing

A woman brought her son to the Wyomissing police station about 8:21 p.m. Jan. 25 to report that he was assaulted. Officers talked to the boy, but the part of his story they found interesting wasn't the alleged assault: It was his confession to an earlier crime. The lad told police he and two of his friends broke several garage windows and to damaging other vehicles in the borough.

The police report didn't specify which vehicles were damaged, but between Jan. 20 and Jan. 24, several residents reported windows getting smashed:

• A windshield was shattered while parked Jan. 20 in front of a home in the first block of Lynne Avenue.
• About 6:07 p.m. Jan. 20, a man reported finding the windshield of his car kicked in while it was parked in the 1400 block of Garfield Avenue.
• The rear window of a vehicle was shattered in the evening of Jan. 20 in the 100 block of Park Road South.
• An officer on patrol found a vehicle about 10:40 p.m. Jan. 20 at Forest and Garfield avenues with its windshield kicked in and footprints on the hood.
• Between the night of Jan. 20 and the morning of Jan. 21, someone smashed the rear window of a vehicle parked behind a home in the 1300 block of Girard Avenue.
• Finally, a man discovered in the afternoon of Jan. 27 that several windows were broken on his detached garage behind his home in the 1200 block of Girard Avenue.

Again, the police report doesn't specify what mischief the boy admitted to. These are simply the cases of damage to vehicles that residents reported in the days before -- and one after -- he confessed.

Window broken in vehicle parked in Wyomissing

A woman went out to her car about 3:23 p.m. March 27 that was parked in the first block of George Avenue in Wyomissing and discovered someone threw a large rock through the rear driver's side window. She told police the vandal or vandals must have struck sometime between 12:30 a.m. And 3:15 p.m. that day.

Pellet guns fired at home, vehicle in Wyomissing

About 5:05 a.m. March 3, a Wyomissing resident noticed the rear window of a vehicle shattered and dents in its vehicle as it was parked in the 700 block of North Wyomissing Boulevard.

The day before, about 6:10 p.m. March 2, a resident in the first block of Goldfinch Drive told police pellets had damaged four windows of his home.

Vandals strike West Reading neighborhood

A woman called West Reading police at 5 p.m. July 30 to report some kids who had removed parts of a curb and threw them in the street in the 200 block of Olive Street. She also told police the kids pulled branches off trees and were raising a ruckus well after the 9:30 p.m. curfew.

Minivan damaged but nothing stolen

A West Reading man parked his minivan about 6:30 p.m. July 29 in the 300 block of Sunset Road in the borough. When he returned to the vehicle the next morning, he noticed it had a broken window on the passenger side and pry marks in the window frame he thinks came from a large screwdriver. Nothing was taken from the minivan, even though the stereo, a set of tools in the back seat and coins in the cup holder were apparently in plain sight.

Slur found on fence at Wyomissing home

A woman called Wyomissing police in the afternoon of July 29 to report that someone had painted a racial slur on the fence of her home in the first block of Valley Road.

GPS devices stolen from vehicles in Wyomissing

A woman told Wyomissing police July 18 that sometime in the past couple days someone entered her unlocked vehicle in the 1300 block of Garfield Avenue in the borough and stole a Garmin GPS device worth about $150.

In the morning of July 19, someone smashed the driver’s side window of a vehicle parked in the 1100 block of Lehigh Avenue in Wyomissing and stole a Garmin GPS device worth about $200 that had been attached to the windshield of the vehicle.

Two injured in car accident in Wyomissing

Two vehicles collided about 7:54 a.m. July 18 in the 1200 block of Penn Avenue in Wyomissing. Two people suffered unspecified injuries and both vehicles sustained severe damage and had to be towed.

Vandals throw stones at car parked in Wyomissing

A man went out to his car about 7:30 a.m. June 19 in the first block of Wyomissing Hills Boulevard in Wyomissing and found a dent in the front passenger door and shattered glass where the front passenger window used to be. He told police the damage came from someone apparently throwing rocks at his vehicle overnight. Nothing, except for presumably the shattered window, was reported missing.

Drivers report three hit-and-runs in single evening in West Reading

Shortly after 7 p.m, June 17 a man flagged down a police officer in the 300 block of Franklin Street in West Reading. His car, which he parked there a little more than an hour earlier, had dents and scratches on the driver’s side front fender and the front bumper. The offending car was nowhere to be found.

Less than a half-hour later, witnesses told police they saw a car traveling east in the 600 block of Penn Avenue when it turned around in the middle of the block striking another car.

About 11 o’clock that night, officers received a report of a hit and run at the intersection of Cherry Street and South Sixth Avenue. It wasn’t clear what the car had hit, but witnesses described the hit-and-run vehicle as an older, tan sedan with damage to the front end. It was last seen driving east on Cherry Street, but police couldn’t find the car.

Car collides with house in Wyomissing

A car spun out and crashed into a house just after noon June 1 at the corner of Park Road South and Franklin Street in Wyomissing. The driver had swerved to avoid another car that pulled out from a stop sign and into the path of the first vehicle. No one was injured. The car was towed, but no information was available on the damage to the home.