crash_reports: 22000336

ON 4-23-22 AT APPROX. 0720HRS. WHILE WORKING N492 I TOOK A REPORT FOR PAST VEHICLE ACCIDENT. UPON ARRIVAL AT 30 OAK CLIFF RD. I SPOKE TO THE COMPLAINANT ( MARK MANNION ). COMP. STATES SOMETIME DURING THE NIGHT SOMEONE OPERATED THE FEENEY BROS. MINI-EXCAVATOR THAT WAS PARKED ACROSS FROM 36 OAK CLIFF RD. COMP. STATES THERE WAS A KEY IN THE EXCAVATOR THAT THE SUSPECT TOOK WITH THEM. SUSPECT USED THE DIGGING ARM OF THE EXCAVATOR TO SCRAPE BARK OF A TREE ACROSS FROM 36 OAK CLIFF RD. THEN DROVE THE EXCAVATOR ACROSS THE STREET TO 30 OAK CLIFF RD. TO DO DAMAGE TO ANOTHER TREE. BOTH TREES ARE OWNED BY THE CITY OF NEWTON ( PLEASE SEE REPORT # 22014304 ). SUSPECT BACKED THE EXCAVATOR INTO A BRICK WALL AT 30 OAK CLIFF DOING DAMAGE TO THE WALL. RESIDENT AT 30 OAK CLIFF WAS NOT HOME. DISPATCH GOT THE RESIDENTS PHONE NUMBER THROUGH THE CENSUS AND LEFT A VOICE MAIL ABOUT THE DAMAGE. I TOOK PICTURES OF ALL THE DAMAGE AND PLACED THEM IN THE I.T. BOX. COMP. STATES SUSPECT WAS SOMEONE WHO NEW HOW TO OPERATE AN EXCAVATOR BECAUSE THERE ARE SEVERAL STEPS INVOLVED TO GET IT OPERATIONAL. CLEARED WITHOUT FURTHER INCIDENT.