DOWNERS GROVE, IL — Downers Grove Police are investigating multiple incidents in which Halloween decorations were destroyed. Some of the residents reported seeing kids on e-bikes during the incidents. In one incident, surveillance footage showed kids on e-bikes hitting a Halloween decoration.
Halloween decorations were damaged at a homes in the 6600 block of Stonewall Avenue on the evening of Oct. 23. A resident said someone broke the head off the horse on a headless horseman decoration, snapped a grim reaper decoration in half and broke two dog decorations. The total damage was valued at $1,450.
A neighbor told police they saw six to eight kids on electric bikes near the residence that was targeted. He said the kids appeared to have gone to Bolson Drive when they left.
Surveillance footage of the incident showed eight or nine children on e-bikes approaching a home and striking one Halloween decoration before fleeing.
Police say they got additional calls reporting damaged Halloween decorations in the area, including in the 1600 block of Bolson Drive.
Downers Grove police received a report from a resident in the 1600 block of Bolson Drive reporting that someone damaged three inflatable Halloween decorations from their residence. The incident took place on Oct. 23 around 8 p.m.
Police say inflatable Halloween decorations were slashed outside a home in the 600 block of Lincoln Street on Oct. 25. A police report said the resident thinks the damage may have been caused by "a group of kids on electric bikes that have been causing trouble in the neighborhood by drinking, ding dong ditching and destroying property."
A resident in the 4600 block of Roslyn Road told police they came home on Oct. 25 to find their Halloween decorations had been damaged.
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