Police in Jersey City are investigating after at least two dozen vehicles parked on a Jersey City street were found with slashed tires in the early morning hours Monday.
Officers were called to Boyd Avenue at about 4:45 a.m., where they found 27 vehicles with slashed tires between Westside and Mallory avenues. Each of the cars had its two tires on the drivers slashed.
Resident Sullia Danda was late for work as a nurse when she walked outside for her overnight shift and saw the slashed tires.
"I had to change all the tires," she said.
She wasn't alone. Roberto Chernec found the same thing as he got ready for work.
"In the morning I was waking up to go to work and I find all the tires are flat, maybe 20 cars on the block," he said.
Samy Ahmed finally got around to replacing his tires Tuesday, and the $300 bill is tough for him to swallow this holiday season.
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"I say, God, make the police get him," he said of the vandal.
Investigators say they have surveillance video from a business across the street but haven't released it.
An unrelated tire-slashing spree in Brooklyn over the weekend netted an arrest after authorities released surveillance video of the suspect. The victims in Jersey City hope the same will happen in this case.
-- Brynn Gingras contributed to this report.
