Rick’s Auto Care & Tire Center vandalism

On May 17, 2018, an eighteen-year-old Front Royal resident, Johnathan Michael Hendrickson, was arrested and charged with one felony count of destruction of property and five misdemeanor counts of destruction of property.  A male juvenile, age 14, was also charged with one felony and thirteen misdemeanors of destruction of property and three misdemeanor counts of vehicle tampering.  Additional charges are pending for a third suspect related to this matter.

Those charges resulted from an investigation concerning tires being slashed on several parked cars at Rick’s Auto Care & Tire Center, which was closed at the time. It was reported to the Front Royal Police that twenty-three (23) vehicles had been tampered with and/or vandalized.  The investigation revealed that a total of sixteen tires were flattened as a result of being punctured.

Anyone with further information is asked to contact Officer Pennington with the Front Royal Police Department at (540)635-2111 or via email at bpennington@frontroyalva.com.