Prank played on teachers at California school, video catches suspect in act

Cops are hunting for a brazen vandal who glued shut nearly 200 doors across a high school just before finals week.

Newly released surveillance footage caught the suspect in the act at Patrick Henry High School in San Diego on May 26.

It showed him between 1 a.m. and 3 a.m. spending nearly two hours pouring glue into locks, according to the San Diego Unified School District Police.

“I was walking in, right, and I looked around. There’s all these teachers on the floor. They had these little – I don’t know what they were doing, but they were picking at the locks,” Christopher Guzman, a student at Patrick Henry described.

The video shows the man wearing a hooded sweater with a “B” on top of the left chest area, covering his face.

“It is typical to see senior pranks, but those are more lighthearted, funny, more clever, but nothing to this extreme of damaging over $70,000 worth of property,” Detective Sergeant Roberto Bonilla of the San Diego Unified Police said.

Investigators at the San Diego County Crime Stoppers, a nonprofit organization that helps the public and law enforcement to solve felony crimes, has requested the public’s help with a reward of up to $1000 for information that helps with the suspect’s arrest.

The man’s car is a 2010–2020 sedan with tinted windows, according to the Crime Stoppers.

Anyone with information regarding the suspect is to submit a tip through Crime Stoppers or call the SDUSDPD at (619) 291-7678.

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