A man has been detained after smashing up 17 cars in one night, including with a police cruiser.
The 23-year-old guy is accused of tearing through the cars on nearby streets in West Bridgford, a commuter town in Nottinghamshire, early yesterday morning.
After learning that a vandal had been breaking windscreens and wing mirrors, police were summoned to Bryon Road at about 1:30 in the morning.
One of the damaged vehicles was a police car that was parked in front of West Bridgford Police Station and had its wing mirror damaged.
A front window of a Caffe Nero along the high street Central Avenue was also found shattered during the vandalism spree.
Police detained a suspect at nearby Trent Bridge on suspicion of criminal damage and remains in police custody.
Nottinghamshire Police said the vehicle-smashing rampage was ‘completely unacceptable’, with car owners taping cardboard boxes in makeshift repairs.
PC Chris Morgan said: ‘As many as 18 vehicles had their windscreens put through or their wing mirrors damaged during this incident.
‘It really should go without saying but this type of behaviour is completely unacceptable and not what we want to see in our communities at all.
‘We are still in the process of investigating this incident, so we’d ask anyone who has any information that could assist our inquiries to get in touch with us.’