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Vandal trashes optometrist’s office; damage could exceed $200,000
When Dayton police entered an optometrist’s office Thursday morning, April 8, in the 1200 block of South Patterson Boulevard, they found it completely ransacked with files, office furniture, eye glasses and equipment strewn throughout the office.
Debris littered the hallway and on the lawn outside a broken window of the Wright Health Building.
The damage was so extensive that it might surpass $200,000, according to the optometrist.
“I can’t even begin to describe it,” said Kathy Vergakis, an employee of optometrist Dr. William Martin. “Everything was destroyed. It was like a tornado hit.”
When officers arrived, Alexander Jackson, 28, was in handcuffs, being held by two private security guards. Jackson, wearing only a pair of jeans and white socks, was bleeding from a gash on his hand and another on the crown of his head. Jackson was unable to tell officers how or when he was injured.
Jackson is a registered Tier III sex offender, meaning he has been designated by the state as violent sexual predator.
The security guards said they discovered the broken window shortly after 6 a.m. and heard a fire alarm going off. They searched building, finding Jackson hiding in a fourth-floor women’s restroom.
Police searched the building, finding no one else. It appeared someone entered the building through the broken window into Martin’s office, which “had been ransacked almost completely,” according to the police report. In addition to the ransacking, someone had also flooded the doctor’s office, and blood was smeared on the walls.. On the unoccupied fourth floor, police found holes had been punched in the walls. They also found a pair of shoes, splattered with blood.
“In equipment alone, it’s going to cost $100,000-plus,” Martin said. “When you add it all up, it could be close to $200,000.”
Martin, who has been in practice for 32 years, said it might be two weeks before he can re-open the location. Meanwhile, he is shifting patients to his downtown location in the Kettering Tower.
Jackson was taken to Grandview Hospital for treatment of his injuries, which he was unable to explain.
He was booked into the county lockup for felony vandalism and breaking and entering.
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