A trio of New Jersey men have been arrested following a vandalism spree at a New York amusement park that involved slashing cables, stealing stuffed animals and an escape in a rowboat taken from a Connecticut marina, police said.<\/p>\n
The men \u2014 a 20-year-old and two 19-year-olds \u2014 have all surrendered in recent days to Westchester County police their role in the Sept. 23 break-in at Rye Playland, which caused an estimated $57,000 in damages.<\/p>\n
Police said the three friends arrived at the waterfront park before midnight on a small boat they had apparently taken from a marina in Connecticut, on the other side of the Long Island Sound.<\/p>\n
After jumping a fence, they ripped out fiber optic cables from an electrical room and made off with 200 stuffed animals in garbage bags, police said.<\/p>\n
They also \u201cattempted to throw a photo booth off the boardwalk but were unable to do so,\u201d according to a police account, which was also backed up by surveillance images shared on social media.<\/p>\n
The men then boarded the stolen boat and returned it to the Connecticut marina, police said.<\/p>\n
The suspects \u2014 who hail from Wyckoff, New Jersey; Oakland, New Jersey; and Pompton Lakes, New Jersey \u2014 have all voluntarily turned themselves into police in recent days. They now face felony burglary and criminal mischief charges.<\/p>\n
Their attorneys did not immediately respond to requests for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A trio of New Jersey men have been arrested following a vandalism spree at a New York amusement…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":377331,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,1035,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-377330","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-crime-and-courts","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-newyork","13":"tag-newyorkcity","14":"tag-ny","15":"tag-nyc","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-united-states-of-america","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115545747196885070","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}