{"id":172441,"date":"2026-02-10T21:44:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T21:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/172441\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T21:44:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T21:44:07","slug":"officials-announce-reward-in-balboa-park-parking-meter-vandalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/172441\/","title":{"rendered":"Officials announce reward in Balboa Park parking meter vandalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timesofsandiego.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_2246-scaled.jpeg?ssl=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"631\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG_2246.jpeg\" alt=\"A parking meter in San Diego. (Jennifer Vigil\/Times of San Diego)\" class=\"wp-image-343203\"  \/><\/a>A parking meter in San Diego. (Jennifer Vigil\/Times of San Diego)<\/p>\n<p>Officials 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 area around <a href=\"https:\/\/balboapark.org\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Balboa Park<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>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, and left tens of thousands of dollars in damages.<\/p>\n<p>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>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>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 <a href=\"http:\/\/sdcrimestoppers.org\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sdcrimestoppers.org<\/a>. Tipsters may remain anonymous.<\/p>\n<p>READ NEXT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A parking meter in San Diego. (Jennifer Vigil\/Times of San Diego) Officials announced a reward of up to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":172442,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[4549,20680,74,76,75,22919],"class_list":{"0":"post-172441","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-balboa-park","9":"tag-parking-fees","10":"tag-san-diego","11":"tag-san-diego-headlines","12":"tag-san-diego-news","13":"tag-vandalism"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172441","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=172441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}