Braintree Man Charged with Slashing Former Co-workers' Tires

A Braintree man was taken into custody Monday after allegedly vandalizing vehicles owned by his former co-workers.

Stephen M. Goudy, 55, was charged with four counts of damaging property according to Police Chief Russ Jenkins.

Police were called to Cara Donna on Commercial Drive after employees discovered several vehicles had flat tires with noticeable puncture marks. The damage was discovered when two employees took their lunch break.

The time of the vandalism was narrowed down to 12:30 a.m. to 2 a.m., with police reviewing surveillance video from that time frame. While viewing footage, investigators saw a vehicle that resembled a pickup truck owned by Goudy, a former employee of Cara Donna. A man was seen on video walking from the area of the pickup truck towards the employee entrance. The video then shows the man walking by two of the vandalized vehicles, bending over at one vehicle and kneeling down for a moment at a second vehicle.

Several employees who viewed the video identified the man as Goudy. Officers went to Goudy’s home where they observed a pickup truck resembling the truck viewed on the video and when confronting Goudy, he was wearing clothing similar to that of the person on the video. He was then taken into custody.