Fernandina Beach police looking for suspects who vandalized new home

A family will have to wait several months to move into their dream home in Fernandina Beach after someone took spray paint to the walls and flooded the floors.

Orange spray paint now covers the walls, windows and even TVs in Bonnie Brooks’ home.

She said vandals turned on all the faucets and left the water running throughout the night.

“The second floor flooded entirely, with seepage through the ceiling and through the first floor,” Brooks said.

Surveillance video from a neighbor’s home showed one of the suspects police are looking for.

In the video, a Mustang pulled up in the driveway, and a man got out and then broke into the home through the garage.

Neighbors said this was alarming to hear about.

“When you just have people like that in your neighborhood, and if you bump into them that could be scary,” neighbor Marcia Fotopoulos said.

Brooks said they were about a month away from moving into their home, but now they are dealing with more than $100,000 worth of damage.

“They were able to demolish a lot of things out of pure meanness and evil,” Brooks said.

Brooks said the vandals caused extensive damage to her children’s rooms.

“That was extremely emotional for me to imagine strangers being in their room,” she said.

With their home being near completion, she believes this made them an easy target, but she’s hoping police will be able to track down the vandals from items they left in her home.

“They left behind undergarments, they let behind footprints on the floor. They were very sloppy,” Brooks said.

Police are asking people to come forward if they know anything about the man seen in the surveillance video.

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