Vandals captured on security camera at Spring Lake auto shop

Vandals returned to a Black-owned auto repair shop to do more damage less than a day after the owner installed security cameras. Over the past couple weeks, Dwyane Haynesworth's business in Spring Lake has been targeted with racist graffiti.
Posted 5/25/2021, 5:28:00 PM Updated 5/26/2021, 7:42:24 PM

WHEN WE COULD SEE

.

>>> LESS THAN 24 HOURS AFTER A

BUSINESS OWNER INSTALLED

SECURITY CAMERAS, VANDALS

RETURNED TO THE AUTO REPAIR SHOP

TO DO MORE DAMAGE.

NOW, THEY'RE ON CAMERA.

GILBERT BAEZ IS LIVE AT THE

BUSINESS IN SPRING LAKE WITH THE

NEW DEVELOPMENT.

.

>> Reporter: YOU KNOW,

PHOTOJOURNAL MIKE AND I WERE

HERE YESTERDAY WHEN THE CAMERAS

WERE BEING INSTALLED.

THEY CAPTURED THOSE TWO

INDIVIDUALS STANDING ABOUT HERE.

AND IT SHOWS THEM GOING TO THIS

VEHICLE AND RUMMAGING THROUGH

HERE.

AND LET ME TAKE YOU DOWN HERE.

THEY WENT TO THIS VEHICLE OVER

HERE.

AND THE FOOTAGE SHOWS THEM

PULLING THIS UP AS WELL.

AND GOING THROUGH THE BACK OF

THIS VEHICLE RIGHT HERE.

THE ONLY THING THIS TIME AROUND,

THOUGH, THEY WERE BEING

RECORDED.

>> THAT'S WHEN THEY FIRST WALKED

UP.

>> Reporter: THE OWNER OF THE

SHOP IN SPRING LAKE SAYS THIS IS

VIDEO OF A CRIME IN PROGRESS.

THOMAS PUT UP THE SECURITY

CAMERAS YESTERDAY.

FOR THE PAST THREE WEEKENDS,

SOMEONE HAS BEEN VANDALIZING

VEHICLES AT THE LOT ON HIGHWAY

210.

LAST NIGHT, THE CAMERAS CAUGHT

TWO MEN RUMMAGING THROUGH TWO

VEHICLES.

>> SEEMS LIKE THEY WERE TRYING

TO -- SAME WITH THE VEHICLE

HERE, THEY WERE TRYING TO HOT

WIRE IT OR SOMETHING.

PROBABLY TRYING TO FIND YOUTUBE

OF HOW TO CRANK THE VEHICLES.

LIKE I SAID, THIS ONE DON'T

CRANK AND THIS ONE DOES.

>> Reporter: THE OWNER THINKS

THE HAND SAW AND THE TOOL WERE

USED TO BREAK THE GLASS AND

SCRATCH THE WINDSHIELDS.

THIS IS NEW DAMAGE FROM LAST

NIGHT.

THE OWNER SAYS THE TWO MEN

SMASHED IT HAD DRIVER'S SIDE

WINDOW OF THIS HONDA AND PUNCHED

A HOLE MANY IN THE BACK WINDOW

OF THIS INFINITY.

BOTH VEHICLES WERE PREVIOUSLY

DAMAGED.

THE INVESTIGATION AND THIS NEW

VIDEO ARE NOW IN THE HANDS OF

THE SPRING LAKE POLICE

DEPARTMENT.

AND THE INVESTIGATORS CAME

OUT LAST NIGHT.

THIS COULD HAVE BEEN SOME OF THE

EVIDENCE RIGHT HERE.

WE'RE TOLD THIS WAS INSIDE ONE

OF THE VEHICLES AND THE

INDIVIDUALS WERE SEEN ON CAMERA

SMOKING THIS BLUNT.

THE SPRING LAKE POLICE DID GO

AROUND AND LOOK AT SOME OF THE

VEHICLES.

AND WE'RE TOLD THEY DID NOT TAKE

ANY FINGERPRINTS ON THE VEHICLES

OUT THERE.

COMING UP AT 5:45, EXACTLY WHAT

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