Man tracked down girl and vandalized her residence greater than a yr after a automobile wreck, cops say | EUROtoday

An Ohio man tracked down a girl a yr after a automobile crash, vandalized her residence and poured sugar in her fuel tank, cops say.

Michael Dietz, 64, now faces vandalism and aggravated menacing costs in connection to the case, in accordance with WOIO.

This week, police in Westlake, Ohio, responded to a sufferer’s residence for the reported vandalism. There, officers discovered the door, home windows and Ring doorbell digicam lined with black spray paint.

“He wrote a lot of words, many of them misspelled on the house itself, plus took time to to spray paint the windows. If you watch the surveillance video, he even notices the cameras that are there and spray paints the cameras,” Capt. Gerry Vogel of the Westlake Police Department advised the outlet.

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The sufferer mentioned the suspect she noticed on her surveillance video appeared acquainted.

Police then decided the sufferer and Dietz had been in a automobile crash in August 2023, in accordance with WOIO.

Officers spoke to Dietz and he matched the suspect seen in digicam. He admitted to the vandalism and mentioned it was ‘because she was an [expletive].”

Dietz told police that everyone was ‘lucky’ he didn’t go over with a gun and begin taking pictures. He additionally talked about courtroom circumstances and medical points linked to the 2023 crash, in accordance with the report.

“You would expect maybe a kid or a young young adult would do something like this. Not thinking things through fully. But this was a 64-year-old man who should definitely know better,” Vogel advised the outlet.