{"id":172425,"date":"2026-02-10T21:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T21:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/172425\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T21:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T21:32:08","slug":"san-diego-offers-1000-reward-for-tips-on-77k-in-damages-to-balboa-park-parking-meters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/172425\/","title":{"rendered":"San Diego offers $1,000 reward for tips on $77K in damages to Balboa Park parking meters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Authorities announced a reward of up to $1,000 Tuesday for information regarding a recent felony vandalism spree that has ruined dozens of parking meters in the Balboa Park area, resulting in tens of thousands of dollars in losses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The spree of malicious damage, which occurred between Dec. 24 and last Friday, has left a total of 52 newly installed parking pay stations inoperable, according to the San Diego Police Department.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The responsible vandal or vandals variously spray-painted the machines, shattered their glass screens and\/or put some sort of sticky substance on their keypads, rendering them unusable. The city has estimated the combined cost of the damages at roughly $77,000.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The offenses have taken place in the 2700 to 3200 blocks of Balboa Drive; 1900 block of Eighth Avenue; 600 block of Juniper Street; 2800 and 3300 blocks of Park Boulevard; 1800 to 2900 blocks of Sixth Avenue; and 1800 block of Village Place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Anyone with information about the crimes was asked to call San Diego County Crime Stoppers at 888-580-8477 or contact the agency online at sdcrimestoppers.org. Tipsters may remain anonymous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Authorities announced a reward of up to $1,000 Tuesday for information regarding a recent felony vandalism spree that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":172426,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[4549,63044,37333,74,76,75,9862,11024],"class_list":["post-172425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-balboa-park","tag-felony-vandalism","tag-parking-meters","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-san-diego-police-department","tag-tens-of-thousands"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}