DUNWOODY, Ga. — Vandals destroyed a garden that provides produce to a local food pantry, and now police are offering a reward to find the culprits.
Volunteers at the Dunwoody Community Garden in Brook Run Park said they found $4,000 in damage to the garden on Friday night. The vegetables grown there are sent to the St. Patrick Food Pantry.
Founder Bob Lundsten told Channel 2's Amanda Cook that the vandals cut the fence, turned beds upside down, pulled plants out of the ground and took down four bluebird boxes, killed the chicks inside and crushed the eggs.
"When I came in here I wanted to find them. Give me a minute in this garden with those kids, and they'll never do this again," Lundsten said.
Volunteers have already started to replant the garden, and Costco and Home Depot have donated supplies and produce.
Two weeks ago, vandals set fires in the dog park at Brook Run Park, police said. The cases haven't been connected but Lundsten said there's fear the vandals could strike again.
"The bad thing about publicity is they kinda get off on seeing all the havoc they caused," he said.
The Dunwoody Police Department is offering a $1,500 reward in the case , raised by garden volunteers, for an arrest and conviction in the case.
Anyone with information is urged to call Dunwoody police at 678-382-6919.
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