‘Celebrating’ patrol car vandal arrested in Santa Rosa

The suspect was caught on video kicking up his heels after tossing a sewer cover into the windshield of a Sonoma County sheriff’s cruiser.|
PAUL PAYNE
THE PRESS DEMOCRAT

Sonoma County deputies arrested a homeless man they say was caught on video smashing the windshield of a patrol car with a concrete sewer cover and celebrating afterward.

The vandalism happened Thursday morning outside a Sheriff’s Office building on Sebastopol Road in Santa Rosa. A deputy parked his car there about 11 a.m. and came out at 12:45 p.m. to find the damage.

A check of local businesses with surveillance cameras turned up the video. It shows a man later identified as David Snowden, 60, tossing the cover into the window and cheering in some way, according to a press release.

Friday afternoon, deputies located Snowden outside a convenience store, also on Sebastopol Road, and arrested him on suspicion of felony vandalism and violating probation.

He is being held at the Sonoma County jail in lieu of $6,000 bail.

You can reach Staff Writer Paul Payne at 568-5312 or paul.payne@pressdemocrat.com. On Twitter @ppayne.

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