EDWARDSVILLE -- About a dozen vehicles were damaged overnight in several communities in Luzerne County.
Police suspect teens are using slingshots to fire ball bearings, marbles, and even frozen eggs at vehicles. It's causing a lot of damage to personal property and has police in several communities searching to find who's responsible.
When Nichole Rambus of Edwardsville went to her car to go to work in the morning, she noticed something didn't look right about the back window.
"And I thought it was rain at first,” she said.
It wasn't rain. It was pieces of glass from her shattered back window. She also found a metal ball bearing inside her car.
"I was not happy, not at all,” Rambus said.
And she's not the only victim. Edwardsville police say more than a dozen people have called to report similar situations since the weekend, including seven from Tuesday night.
And it's happening in other parts of the county, including Swoyersville and Larksville.
"Apparently they shot all over the place,” said Steve Yurkl of Larksville.
Yurkl lives on Nesbitt Street in Larksville right next to where a vehicle's back window was destroyed by an object that was fired through it. Now, instead of glass, it's covered with plastic, and Yurkl feels lucky that his car wasn't the target.
Police from across Luzerne County say since the weekend they received about three dozen reports of damaged vehicles due to marbles, ball bearings, and other small objects. Auto glass repair shops, including Mesko Glass on Carey Avenue in Wilkes-Barre are extra busy.
“We noticed that that there was definitely an increase in the calls for broken window shields and broken parts,” said Robert Mesko, the store general manager.
Police believe teens might be playing a game to see who can do the most damage using slingshots.
Harveys Lake Police Chief Charles Musial showed Newswatch 16 a surveillance video of someone launching what may be frozen eggs from a car on Lakeside Drive, smashing through the windows of a parked car.
"If they think it's a game, they're going to think twice when they're caught. With the video surveillance that we have and the video surveillance that we're gone be pulling from other places, they will be caught,” Musial said.
Police don't yet have any suspects, but they do have that one vehicle on surveillance video.
If you have any information about the vandalism, you're asked to call police.