JUST IN: $50K in damages to brand new Oshawa, Ont. park.
Durham Regional Police Service has previously said that three suspects smashed numerous light poles as well as a camera and a vending machine. The sign for the Garden of Human Rights, which is located within the new park, was also significantly defaced.
Police said that they have identified a third male suspect in relation to this incident and are currently working to arrest him. “I know that formal charges have been laid, but I have every intention that our city will be looking for restitution at the same time,” he said during a Monday morning media conference at the park, which is named after former long-time Oshawa MP and NDP national leader Ed Broadbent.
“We’re better than this. … I have to say that I am so disheartened and I'm so saddened by the events that happened here at Ed Broadbent Park,” he said. He also said that closed-circuit televisions would be installed in all public spaces in and around the new park in an effort to deter any future vandals.
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