SMITH COUNTY (KYTX) - More than a dozen people living in the Lakeway Harbor subdivision in Flint have to shell out big money after waking up this morning to slashed tires.
Victims say it may have been a prank, but it's not very funny. It's costing them a lot of money.
"There's three puncture wounds right here," says William Rogers, pointing to one of dozens of tires slashed on his street overnight. He says his sister tried to leave for work around 5:30 Friday morning.
"She walked over to her truck and saw that four tires were flat, and I walked over to my truck and saw that two tires were flat," Rogers says.
It was a similar story for Rogers' neighbor Joao "John" Sousa.
"All four tires are slashed."
Sousa says, like a lot of people in his neighborhood, he doesn't have a lot of money to spare for situations like this.
"My wife is 100 percent disabled. We have three kids, and I'm fixing my immigration papers so I can't work right now, so this comes at a really really bad time," Sousa says.
Sousa and Rogers were two of at least seven people on their street, Dogwood Trails, with slashed tires. The Lakeway Neighborhood Owners Association says there were at least two other cars vandalized on Autumn Wood and at least four more slashed on Wateridge Loop.
The fixes won't be cheap.
"I spent $250 on my tires," Rogers says. "I know my sister spend $600 on her tires on the front of her truck, just for two, so even with a deal she's still going to be pushing $1100."
"It's going be about $125 each," Sousa says.
People who live in the subdivision say there is a lot of drug activity and vandalism in their community.
"I mean I thought it was just a matter of time," Sousa says.
The Lakeway Harbor Board of Directors hopes by bringing attention to Friday's neighborhood-wide vandalism, it might catch the people causing so much trouble. Neighbors and the board hope the person who did all this is caught.
Neighbors tell CBS 19 they think it was a group of kids who slashed the tires, but some suspect it could have been people on drugs. The Smith County Sheriff's Department has not released a statement yet, but is investigating the vandalism.
