{"id":411719,"date":"2026-07-25T06:15:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T06:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/411719\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T06:15:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T06:15:11","slug":"irvine-police-share-new-video-of-suspected-tesla-vandal-nbc-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/411719\/","title":{"rendered":"Irvine police share new video of suspected Tesla vandal \u2013 NBC Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Irvine Police Department on Friday continued asking for the public&#8217;s help in identifying a man suspected of vandalizing more than a dozen Teslas this week.<\/p>\n<p>Police on Monday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbclosangeles.com\/news\/local\/police-seek-suspected-tesla-vandal-in-irvine\/3920448\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">posted a video<\/a> of a man seen spray painting a Tesla after entering a parking garage near Michelson Drive and Carlson Avenue at around 10:30 p.m. last Friday. At the time, the department said he was believed to have vandalized four vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, officials released a new surveillance video of the suspect who they say went to a nearby parking garage and spray-painted nine more Teslas the night before, bringing the total of vandalized vehicles to 13.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So far, on the damage that we&#8217;re seeing is red spray paint across each of these Teslas, all with different kinds of messaging, but majority of them are all offensive language,&#8221; Irvine police Officer Ziggy Azarcon told NBC Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect is described by officials as a man in his 20s or 30s with a possible tattoo above his right elbow.<\/p>\n<p>Police are still investigating a possible motive but say it appears the suspect is only targeting Teslas.<\/p>\n<p>Azarcon said the department has upped its patrols in the area after the incidents. The officer also urged community members to remember to park in well-lit, highly populated areas or in the garage when possible.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who recognizes the man is asked to contact Detective Noelle at BNoelle@cityofirvine.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Irvine Police Department on Friday continued asking for the public&#8217;s help in identifying a man suspected of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":411720,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[2462,48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-411719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-irvine","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411719","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=411719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/411720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}