Police are looking to identify the people who are responsible for blowing up six mailboxes across three Lamoille County towns.
The Lamoille County Sheriff’s Department says it was one of six mailboxes vandalized across Morristown, Wolcott and Johnson. The sheriff says the suspects used firecrackers to blow them up. “It sounds innocent enough with firecrackers, but when you have pieces of metal blown apart like that with a 30 ft radius, someone could get seriously hurt,” said Sheriff Roger Marcoux with the Lamoille County Sheriff’s Department.
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Source: MSN News
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