ATLANTA — Atlanta police arrested a man early Monday for breaking windows on seven patrol cars and a police van outside the Atlanta Police Department mini-precinct near Peachtree and Pine streets.
"The person was under the influence of narcotics and we believe it was crack cocaine, and he just went on a binge of destruction," Atlanta Police Sgt. Warren Pickard told Channel 2’s Tom Regan.
Police discovered the vandalism as they arrived for work at 7 a.m. They found the suspect inside the police van.
“The officer was able to get in there and arrest him. This person has arrested been about 18 times. He's a dangerous person, because most of his crimes are violent related crimes," Pickard said.
Police said the suspects also threw a brick through a window of the Custom Signs Today store nearby.
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The owner told Regan the damage is more than $600.
"It's a sad thing. I'd say almost once a year I get a brick thrown through my window," business owner Heyward Wescott said.
Police identify the man taken into custody as Roy Tommie Jewell, Jr., 47, of Atlanta