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Police Investigating 22 Trees Cut Down In Parker's Cottonwood Park

PARKER, Colo. (CBS4) - Police in Parker are looking for the person or people who vandalized Cottonwood Park on Christmas Day.

 

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According to police, 22 trees worth $1,000 apiece were cut down in the park. Some of the tree trunks were stuffed in a nearby portable toilet.

Police call it a pure vandalism.

"We haven't seen this before in Parker. I haven't heard of any case like this where somebody would just go along in a park that's used by thousands of people each year and just randomly cut down 22 trees," Officer Dawn Cashman with Parker police said.

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The trees were planted within the last three months.

Police say there are no tracks, tools or motive.

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