On Feb 13, alert neighbors told police about hearing the sound of breaking glass at the Mike Messer residence. The neighbors saw four youths outside the Messer residence. Police investigated the residence, which was unoccupied at the time, and saw the damage done to the outside of the residence. Police later spoke with Diane Messer who showed police the damage to the residence. On Feb 19, a CCPD officer was beginning his tour of duty, and noticed that someone had damaged the electric meter to the city shed where police park the squad car.
Police have no witnesses to the event.
While investigating this incident, police noticed other vehicles in the area that had ornaments missing. In some cases, the owners of the vehicles did not know the ornaments were missing until police questioned them about it. On March 17, the CCPD investigated a report of vandalism that occurred to a storage shed belonging to Don Burbach of Cuba City. Police inspected the damage, which was to the doorjamb of the shed. Police also questioned area residents for witnesses.