Reward offered for information leading to arrest of city vandals – East Idaho News

POCATELLO — Contractors engaged on the East Bench wildfire mitigation undertaking in Pocatello found vandalism that disabled certainly one of their machines Tuesday morning. Now they’re providing a $500 reward for info resulting in the arrest and conviction of the vandals.

Staff for CR Fence — an Inkom-based specialty commerce firm — reported to the positioning of the Pocatello East Bench wildfire mitigation undertaking Tuesday morning and located {that a} masticator had been disabled, in accordance with a information launch from town.

“We’ve obtained overwhelming suggestions from many residents residing within the space supporting the undertaking,” Pocatello Science and Surroundings Administrator Hannah Sanger says within the launch. “It’s unlucky to have a foul actor(s) trigger a lot injury and decelerate the work.”

Wires on the masticator had been minimize, the employees imagine, someday between 5 p.m. Monday and eight a.m. Tuesday. The damages are estimated to price $1,624 {dollars} on high of a day of labor, the discharge says.

Moreover, metropolis survey flags had been moved, and injury was carried out to the property line monument — which, in accordance with the discharge, is a criminal offense punishable by a fantastic as much as $1,500.

Metropolis employees and contractors are working to take away juniper timber and different vegetation from the realm. The purpose of the undertaking, funded by a U.S. Forest Service grant, is to clear wildfire gasoline from round 70 acres of city-owned gullies east of Satterfield Drive.

Anybody with details about the vandalism or vandals is requested to contact the Pocatello Police Division, at (208) 234-6100, and ask to talk with Officer Cates.