SAN DIEGO, Calif. (KFMB\/CNN\/CNN Newsource\/WKRC) – A suspect is being sought after nearly 200 doors were glued shut at a high school, leading to disruptions during finals week and causing thousands in damages.<\/p>\n
Nearly 200 doors at a San Diego high school were glued shut in an act of vandalism that caused an estimated $70,000 in damage and disrupted campus operations during finals week, school police said.<\/p>\n
The incident occurred May 26 at Patrick Henry High School, where authorities say a suspect spent about two hours on campus pouring glue into door locks, rendering many inaccessible.<\/p>\n
Two weeks later, some locks remain damaged, according to San Diego Unified School District police.<\/p>\n
“It was a huge disruption,” Detective Sgt. Roberto Bonilla told KFMB.<\/p>\n
School surveillance cameras captured images of the suspect, but investigators have not yet identified the individual. Police described the person as wearing a distinctive hooded sweatshirt featuring a large letter “B” on the chest and covering much of their face.<\/p>\n
Authorities believe the suspect acted alone.<\/p>\n
Rumors have circulated among students that the vandalism may have been intended as a senior prank, but investigators have not determined whether the suspect is a Patrick Henry student.<\/p>\n
“It is typical to see senior pranks, but those are more lighthearted, funny, more clever \u2014 nothing to this extreme of damaging over $70,000 worth of property,” Bonilla told KFMB.<\/p>\n
The damage estimate has prompted Crime Stoppers to offer a reward of up to $1,000 for information leading to the arrest of the suspect, who could face felony vandalism charges.<\/p>\n
The incident created challenges for staff and students during one of the busiest periods of the school year.<\/p>\n
“The last couple of weeks of school are very busy,” Bonilla told KFMB. “Teachers and students are trying to get everything together before summer break, and it just created a big disruption.”<\/p>\n
Despite the damage, school officials were able to access enough classrooms to continue the school day as scheduled.<\/p>\n
Student Christopher Guzman told KFMB he immediately noticed something was wrong when he arrived on campus.<\/p>\n
“I looked around, and there were all these teachers on the floor picking at the locks,” Guzman told KFMB.<\/p>\n
Guzman said classes continued that day, including final exams.<\/p>\n
“We still had class that day,” Guzman told KFMB. “Had to take the final.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN DIEGO, Calif. (KFMB\/CNN\/CNN Newsource\/WKRC) – A suspect is being sought after nearly 200 doors were glued shut…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":354717,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[11942,144676,63044,144678,144677,25368,74,76,75,71694],"class_list":["post-354716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-crime-stoppers","tag-door-vandalism","tag-felony-vandalism","tag-finals-week","tag-glued-shut","tag-patrick-henry-high-school","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-school-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354716","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=354716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}