Vestaburg School vandals leave clues

RICHLAND TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WOOD) - Vandals who jumped through a skylight at the Vestaburg School Complex and spray-painted all over a kindergarten classroom left behind several clues, including some names.

"They took something like a cinder block, busted their way through and then started spray painting, causing a lot of damage," said Lt. Robert McVey of the Montcalm County Sheriff's Department.

The kindergarten room "has safety glass. They had to plow through it to get in here," he said.

And scrawled on the wall, in either marker or spray paint, are the names Trent S and Jason M.

It appears the vandals, at some point, ran out of spray paint. So they turned to fire extinguishers - but the dust from the fire extinguishers very often sets off fire alarms.

That ended the vandalism. But it left police with detailed shoeprints.

Early estimates of damage to the building - which houses the entire K-12 student population - could be as much as "$20,000 by the time we get done," said Vestaburg Area Schools Superintendent Jeff Beal.

"I think what's going to happen is," he said, "these kids are going to talk to somebody. And before you know it I will have a phone call in my office telling me exactly who did it. And it's probably going to happen in the next couple of days."