Vandals hotwire, steal school district pickup trucks

Two school district pickup trucks were stolen Thursday morning from the Lower Kuskokwim School District office parking lot.

Vandals hotwired one truck about 5:30 a.m. Thursday and rammed it into the side of a school van before speeding away, Superintendent Dan Walker said.

Later, they returned the truck, hotwired another one and drove away again.

The second truck was found in a ditch off BIA Road, just past Larson Subdivision.

All the vehicles involved were damaged.

Walker says that the vandalism was filmed by surveillance cameras, and the Bethel Police Department is investigating.

KYUK - Bethel

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