Boy admits breaking garage windows, damaging vehicles in Wyomissing

A woman brought her son to the Wyomissing police station about 8:21 p.m. Jan. 25 to report that he was assaulted. Officers talked to the boy, but the part of his story they found interesting wasn't the alleged assault: It was his confession to an earlier crime. The lad told police he and two of his friends broke several garage windows and to damaging other vehicles in the borough.

The police report didn't specify which vehicles were damaged, but between Jan. 20 and Jan. 24, several residents reported windows getting smashed:

• A windshield was shattered while parked Jan. 20 in front of a home in the first block of Lynne Avenue.
• About 6:07 p.m. Jan. 20, a man reported finding the windshield of his car kicked in while it was parked in the 1400 block of Garfield Avenue.
• The rear window of a vehicle was shattered in the evening of Jan. 20 in the 100 block of Park Road South.
• An officer on patrol found a vehicle about 10:40 p.m. Jan. 20 at Forest and Garfield avenues with its windshield kicked in and footprints on the hood.
• Between the night of Jan. 20 and the morning of Jan. 21, someone smashed the rear window of a vehicle parked behind a home in the 1300 block of Girard Avenue.
• Finally, a man discovered in the afternoon of Jan. 27 that several windows were broken on his detached garage behind his home in the 1200 block of Girard Avenue.

Again, the police report doesn't specify what mischief the boy admitted to. These are simply the cases of damage to vehicles that residents reported in the days before -- and one after -- he confessed.