MEDINA — Don’t mess with the mailboxes on Yorktown Drive.
That’s the message residents sent about midnight Sunday when a spree of mailbox bashing sent several neighbors running down the street in pursuit of three young men who allegedly took two hammers and a wooden pickaxe handle to 12 mailboxes in the 900 block of Yorktown and two on Quincy Court. Several mailboxes also were torn off their posts, police said.
“They made quite a racket and woke my husband up,” said one Yorktown Drive resident who asked that her name not be used. “The mailboxes are heavy plastic or metal, and they went up and down the street whacking them. One of our neighbors called us to let us know what was happening.”
Neighbors in nightclothes from Quincy Court, one on foot and one in a car, pursued three suspects and directed police to 928 Van Buren Way, where they followed them into the yard.
Two of the alleged mailbox bashers were arrested in the yard, a third in the house.
Cavan Dickson, 19, 928 Van Buren Way; Matthew Shaw, 18, 3991 Avon Lake Road, Litchfield Township; and Jacob Wuensch, 19, 9740 Norwalk Road, Litchfield Township, each are charged with underage consumption and 14 counts of criminal damaging. All three tested over the legal juvenile alcohol limit of .02, police said.
They are scheduled to be arraigned Friday on the misdemeanor charges in Medina Municipal Court.
Contact Judy A. Totts at (330) 721-4063 or jtotts@ohio.net.
these Young Mailbox Bashers are local Heroes. They are the new wave of Revolution occuring in Medina, Ohio. this will not be the end, due to the malicious actions of the Gazette, more mailboxes will be Targeted. so check your mail. the Revolution has just begun!
these young men are Heroes and should not be maligned!
as a young, Buckeye High School classmate of these young men, i see no harm in their actions. i feel as if their treatment so far by the media has been malicious and one sided. why were they not interviewed? only the violent accusers who chased them down with hammers were interviewed, leaving a very one-sided account of the incident. I empathize with these young men for taking action they believed was neccessary to shock a town out of apathy.