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By Rose Hooper
"The vandalism was so extensive someone knows something,"
said Jackson County Sheriff Jimmy Ashe about a recent rash of
bricks thrown through windows of area businesses.
County wide, 11 cases from Dillsboro to Cullowhee were investigated
while five cases were investigated within the Sylva town limits.
"Collectively, the county and the town are offering a $500
reward leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible,"
said Ashe.
The sheriff said he believed the vandal(s) took the bricks from
a near-by construction site.
A
brick through the window at Enloe Market Place in Dillsboro was
one of the many acts of vandalism discovered early Monday morning,
Nov. 10, by merchants from Dillsboro to Cullowhee. ‚Herald
photo by Carey King
"We think the brick theft occurred around
2 a.m. Monday at the Bojangles site near Wal-Mart," said
Detective John Buchanan with the Sylva Police Department.
In Sylva, bricks were thrown through the window at Skyview Satellite
and through a new Dodge pick-up truck at Western Carolina Chrysler
Dodge, Buchanan said.
In Dillsboro, where bricks were thrown at the Golden Carp and
the Apron Shop, private automobiles also sustained broken windows.
"We've been open since 1985 and this is the first time anything
like this has happened to us," said Enloe Market Place owner
Reg Moody.
"We had come in early to decorate for Christmas – this
sure takes away your Christmas spirit," said his wife, Judy
Moody.
At Dillsboro Supply owner John Clark said, "They broke into
the little building at the parking lot and took my dad's briefcase.
It was full of pictures and mementos and he walked the railroad
track looking for where they might have dumped them. He never
found anything."
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