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Vandals Destroy Bucks County Park Facilities, Causing $Thousands In Damage

NEWTOWN, Pa. (CBS) - Police in Newtown Township (Bucks County) are looking for the vandals responsible for wreaking havoc at a township park overnight.

Police believe the vandalism occurred at the tail end of the Memorial Day weekend, sometime late Monday into the early morning hours of today.

Newtown police chief Rick Pasqualini says the restrooms at Roberts Ridge Park, on Frost Lane, were so badly damaged they will likely need to be demolished and then reconstructed.

"They kicked the doors down, then they got on the roof and damaged solar panels and the ventilation system," he told KYW Newsradio.  "And they actually threw body blocks into the framing and destroyed the walls of the structure."

Pasqualini says the playground equipment and the plumbing system at the park were not damaged.  He says they have some "trace" evidence from the scene and believe a group of people was responsible.

The damage estimate is around ten thousand dollars.

The damage was first discovered by a Public Works Department employee who alerted his supervisor, who then called police.

Reported by Brad Segall, KYW Newsradio 1060

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