Several car windows were smashed and items stolen in Monroe County, New York, between Christmas Eve and Christmas morning. Incidents occurred near a Park Avenue apartment building, at a church in Henrietta, and at a school serving a Catholic church in Penfield.
Rochester , N.Y. — Several car windows were smashed and a number of objects inside were stolen between Christmas Eve and Christmas morning around Monroe County .A mess of broken glass was left outside a Park Avenue apartment building Wednesday morning. The passenger side of Ken Pennica's Buick seemed to have held against a strong blow. 'They were ready to get in,' Pennica remarked. 'This morning, I had a text from a friend of mine who also lives here and said 10 of our cars were hit.
'Michael Reiss said hours earlier, he woke up to a strange noise and looked out the window. 'I saw one guy with what looked like a crowbar,' said Reiss. 'I saw that he was trying to break the window, so that's when I yelled, and he looked up and sort of 'loped' off to the car waiting, and they drove off pretty quickly.' The Rochester Police Department said responding officers found 11 vandalized cars near the building, the Parklawn Apartments in the 600 block of Park Avenue.The Monroe County Sheriff's Office released this photo, an attempt to identify two people in relation to a larceny in Henrietta. Deputies said around one A.M, Wednesday, during a midnight services at Guardian Angels Church in Henrietta, an unknown suspect or suspects broke the windows of several vehicles and stole items.Around 3:30 P.M. on Tuesday, 13 cars at the Cobbles Elementary School parking lot, serving as overflow for St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Penfield, were reportedly found with broken windows. Deputies said a 2019 Kia Sorento was also stolen. 'The people who broke into the cars, I mean, I just feel a sense of profound sadness,' said Father Jim Schwartz. 'When children and grandchildren go to their car after a mass which was filled with so much joy and so much peace, to see the windows broken in their car, it's just it's a scarring memor
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