Authorities asked the public Wednesday for help in identifying three youths who defaced American flags in a senior housing neighborhood near Emerald Isle Golf Course.
The vandals spray-painted the three flags — writing “(expletive) USA” on one of them — and damaged other private and public property on Mesa Drive and Rosemary Way in Oceanside late on the evening of July 18, according to police. A surveillance camera captured images of the crimes, Lt. Leonard Cosby said.
The perpetrators, two males and a female, appeared to be Hispanics between 16 and 20 years old, dressed in dark-colored clothing.
The boys or young men were wearing baseball caps, one with a Baltimore Orioles logo on it, the other with a rendition of a marijuana leaf on the left side.
Anyone with information about the crimes was asked to call Oceanside police at (760) 435-4682.
— City News Service
