Krystal Boals was greeted with an unhappy sight Saturday afternoon.
"It is the driver's side rear tire and as you can see their tire also," she said, pointing to a car parked behind hers.
She says it changed her day for the worst.
"I was getting ready to go to work and had loaded myself up," she said. "And as soon as I pulled out, I realized I was on the rim. So I pulled back over and realized not only I am on the rim but my neighbor's car is on the rim."
She called Lake Stevens police.
"So once the police arrived, basically found out that from down the street and all the way on up," Boals said. "All the cars along the street had been slashed the tires."
Even now two full days later, there were still five vehicles with flat tires. In a couple of cases, both tires on the side facing 91st Avenue Southeast are still sitting on their rims.
Lake Stevens police tell us they got reports that the tires on at least eight vehicles along this busy roadway were slashed.
"We have no information that anybody saw it," Lake Stevens Police Commander Jeffrey Beazizo. "No witnesses or anything or anything like that. But if there is witnesses out there that may have some information, we're asking them to call us."
"What did you do?" Boals was asked.
"Panicked," she replied.
Boals says this cost her and her husband time and money.
"We had to use money that we did not have to go and buy new tires,"
"How many did you have to get?" Boals was asked.
"Just the one," she said. "But that's an hour from my job, an hour for his job and the money for the tire, on somebody that's modest income."
Krystal Boals posted the crime on the Snohomish County Community and Crime page. She says she posted it to get the word out.
As Boals discovered replacing tires is pretty costly. So whoever is slashing tires, if caught and charge, may be looking at a felony.
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