PLATTSBURGH — State Police are investigating two more reports of flares fired, this time at a residence and a construction sign.
That brings the total to four separate incidents in the area since Sunday.
No one was injured as a result of the dangerous pranks, but there was damage caused in each, which also included flares shot at another home and a pull-behind trailer, State Police Bureau of Criminal Investigation Lt. Brent Davison said.
That brings the total to four separate incidents in the area since Sunday.
“We have several leads we are tracking down,” he said Wednesday afternoon. “Hopefully, there will be good news within the next 24 hours.”
The first flare, fired on Sunday, hit a pull-behind trailer in the Sam’s Club parking lot in Plattsburgh.
It entered through the trailer’s window and exited through another before fizzling out on the parking lot pavement, police said.
A surveillance video of the area captured a dark-color van pulling up to the trailer then the flare shot from the vehicle, police said.
Tuesday, two flares were discharged in the direction of an occupied mobile home on Norrisville Road in Schuyler Falls.
Police said one of the flares lodged in an interior wall of the residence after entering through a window, and another was stuck in the its vinyl siding.
That same day, a flare was fired at a home on Caulkins Road in Peru. That one smashed through a window and end up stuck in a vacuum cleaner.
Workers at Fuller Construction on Military Turnpike near Salmon River Road alerted police Wednesday that a lighted sign had been damaged by a flare.
They noticed the sign was not working properly and later phoned police saying it appeared it had been struck by a flare.
Davison said the attacks are very serious as the results could be deadly.
“I don’t know if the people that are doing this understand just how dangerous this is,” he said. “It can cause serious injury or even death, whether it’s caused by a direct hit or a fire started by a flare inside a residence.”
Anyone with information is asked to contact State Police at 563-3761.
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