Vandals Tag Palmdale High School, Damage Vehicles

PALMDALE (CBSLA.com) — Several teenagers, who used white bandanas to conceal their identities, spray-painted more than three dozen locations at Palmdale High School with graffiti late Saturday night, authorities said.

Lt. Ken Wright of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department's Palmdale station, said the three or four youths also damaged seven vehicles, broke windows in the building and stole an Apple computer monitor.

Deputies responded to the school at 2137 E. Avenue R at 11:43 p.m. Saturday, following a report of juveniles smashing windows, Wright said. they found "approximately 37" places where profanity, obscenities and "possible monikers" had been spray-painted on walls and the ground.

"Deputies were unable to gain access to the building to determine if any additional vandalism or theft had occurred inside, but they suspected the computer monitor may have been taken from that location," Wright told City News Service.

The damaged vehicles, six sedans as a pickup, were in the northwest corner of the school, officials said.

Witnesses said the suspects fled east toward an apartment complex in the 31800 block of 25th Street East, Wright said.

Wright said the preliminary estimate of damages is $27,000.

Officials ask that anyone with information regarding the vandalism call the Palmdale station at (661) 272-2400.

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