HOULTON, Maine — Local police are looking for two men who are suspected of crushing a woman’s walker Friday evening while joy-riding on an all-terrain vehicle.
The walker belonged to a local 78-year-old woman who used it to get around, according to the Houlton Police Department. In a post Saturday to the department’s Facebook page, Officer Eric Crouse wrote that the woman “left her walker in her yard while she went to the store for a short period of time.” The woman is not identified in the post.
When she returned, Crouse wrote, she found it had been flattened. Surrounding the destroyed mobility aid were “ATV tracks in a repetitive and circular pattern where they ran it over multiple times to ensure it was beyond repair,” he added.
Police indicated they have received a description of an ATV they believe may have been involved.
“The Houlton Police Department would ask that anyone who may have seen two male subjects on a black-ish colored ATV on [Friday] 7-31-2015 between 6:30 pm to 7:30 PM in the Lincoln Street, Riverfront Park trail area, please give us a call or message,” Crouse posted on the department’s page. “Or anyone with information regarding the persons who felt this act of vandalism was a good idea.”
The officer then went further in the post, encouraging the perpetrators to “man up” and turn themselves in for the “heinous crime.” Someone has since donated another walker to the victim so she can still get around, he added.
Crouse was unavailable for comment Sunday morning. A dispatcher with Houlton Police Department said there have been no developments in the case since Crouse wrote about it on Facebook.
