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by Trench on March 29th, 2006

Steele Creek vandals arrested, police say:
A wave of vandalism that’s been going on locally here locally in Charlotte, NC has been brought to a halt. How did police catch the vandals? Take one guess…

Four teens stand accused of vandalizing a neighborhood. Police said the vandals targeted the Steele Creek neighborhood in southwest Charlotte.

They used BB guns to damage hundreds of car windows, police said. The shootings started in January and escalated to 150 cars in one February weekend.

Word came Wednesday that police had finally cracked the case.

�(We put in) probably more man hours in any singular case that we’ve ever worked in this district,� said Officer Travis Pardue.

After three months of investigation police charged Anthony Massetti, Charles Hancock, Chad Mustafa and Anthony Murphy with at least 66 of the shootings.

Three of the four are former students at Olympic High School.

�One would be driving and one or two would be shooting,� Pardue said.

Some of the vandalism sprees were planned on myspace.com police said. Officers said as the shootings escalated, the teens started talking and the tips started coming in.

�They said they did this out of boredom. (There was) no other reason is given,� Pardue said.

Police said the parents of the teens didn�t know what their sons were doing. Police have not said if any of them will spend time in jail.

However, Anthony Massetti is already serving time in South Carolina for allegedly shooting out some windows there.

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