More than a dozen cars were vandalized in the Harvard-owned Peabody Garage near Mather House early Tuesday morning, the second such incident this year.
"I received an e-mail from the parking garage saying that my car had been tampered with," said Natalie A. Lester '01. "I immediately ran outside to see what had happened."
The Mather resident found her driver's side window smashed, her dashboard wrecked and her car stereo stolen, along with another sound system she had in the car.
When Lester met with police officers later that afternoon, they told her that she was the thirteenth person they had seen that day.
"At this time we have not been able to contact all of the vehicle owners and so we can not give an exact number [of incidents] yet," said Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) spokesperson Peggy A. McNamara.
McNamara said an HUPD officer on routine patrol of the garage found the cars early Tuesday morning.
"We presume that stereo equipment was the target item," McNamara said.
But some cars were broken into and had nothing stolen.
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