According to the lead investigator on the case, Det. Steve Molock, the cars were damaged in the late evening hours of Sunday, April 10. Molock stated that vehicles sustained damage to both the inside and outside. A DVD player was taken from one sport utility vehicle as well, he said.
“It was an act of vandalism and it was certainly unwarranted,” said John Wilburn, manager at Cedartown Chevrolet-Pontiac-Buick, 910 S. Main St.
Wilburn stated that damage sustained to the vehicles included scratches to the paint and broken mirrors.
“They did steal a DVD player out of a Suburban,” Wilburn said, “but most of it was plain old vandalism.”
All 22 vehicles damaged were located in the lot across the street from the Cedartown Chevrolet showroom. While Wilburn said that most of the damage was minor, the vehicles have since been cleared from that lot so that they can be repaired and stolen components replaced.
“Some of them will require an amount of paint work,” he said.
Once repaired, the vehicles will eventually be moved to the lot of Cedartown Chevrolet’s new location on 2076 Rockmart Highway U.S. 278, next to Hutto Road.
Because the cars were located in the lot across the street from the showroom, Wilburn said that no video surveillance footage of the incident was obtained.
Apparently, no witnesses have come forward claiming to have seen the obviously time consuming vandalism occur either.
“The sad thing is that this took so much time that I’m surprised someone didn’t see it,” he said.
Cedartown Chevrolet’s new location, which Wilburn said will be open for business in less than two months, will be well lit and have plenty of video surveillance equipment in use.
“The new place will certainly have surveillance,” he said.
Both Wilburn and Molock stated that an estimated total of the damage has not yet been determined.
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