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Vandals Slash and Smash Through Panhandle Town

mitchell-nebraskaMITCHELL, Neb. (AP) — Vandals have smashed and slashed their way through a Nebraska Panhandle town.

Police Chief Mike Cotant says there was an estimated total of $10,000 damage reported from all areas of Mitchell.

The vandals struck between 3 a.m. and 5 a.m. on Sunday. They slashed tires on more than 60 vehicles, tore down flags and took landscape objects from porches and yards and smashing them in the streets.

Cotant also says someone cut a telephone line into the home of an elderly woman and slashed her window screens.

No arrests have been reported.

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