Vandals Hit Berkeley Little League Complex

Volunteers who plan to help spruce up the Berkeley Little League complex on Moorage Avenue this coming weekend can add scrubbing graffiti off to their work detail list.

Vandals spray-painted a number of signs, fences and buildings at the complex, sometime between 9 p.m. Monday and 8 a.m. Tuesday, league President Robert J. Everett Jr. said.

"It's disappointing," Everett said. "We work hard. Unfortunately, we've had to deal with this before. A lot of people who worked hard down there are really ticked off."

Between 10 to 15 areas at the complex were spray-painted, including the vinyl sign at the front of the complex, which will cost around $300 to replace, he said.

"The real sad part is the sign in the front," Everett said. "It's an Eagle Scout project."

The Eagle Scout had just finished the brick work and landscaping under the sign this past weekend, he said.

Everett and other league officials plan to review tapes from the complex's security cameras.

"I have cameras on the inside and the outside," Everett said. "We just put them in this year. This will be the first real test."

Everett headed out to Home Depot this afternoon to purchase graffiti cleaner.

Anyone with any information is urged to call the Berkeley Township Police Department at 732-341-6600, or the Berkeley Little League at 732-606-9060. All information will be kept confidential.

"We'll catch them," Everett said. "The nasty little dopes."