RUMFORD – Damages continue to accrue after a second week of criminal mischief incidents.

Unlike the previous week’s damaged flowerpots and keyed vehicles, however, rock throwing and shattered glass accounted for the bulk of incidents reported from Saturday through Monday.

Police have no suspects in a case of thrown rocks denting the roof of a Prospect Avenue resident’s car Saturday and breaking her third-floor window. Damage to the car was estimated at $300. Officer Eric DeWitt is investigating. Witnesses attributed the damage to a juvenile, whom police could not find in the area at that time.

Sometime between Friday night and Sunday, someone scratched up a Spruce Street resident’s car that was parked in her yard, causing $300 damage. DeWitt is investigating.

Also reported Monday:

• Someone used a rock to smash the windshield out of a Toyota Corolla sedan parked at 421 Cumberland St. and left the rock on the car’s roof. No damage estimate was noted but police have a suspect. Officer Michael Halacy is investigating.

• Someone peppered the front window of a styling salon on Holyoke Avenue with BBs, doing $275.88 damage. Police have a suspect. Officer Daniel Garbarini is investigating.

• Someone smashed out the front window of a home at 419 Cumberland St. doing $75 damage. Sgt. Tracy Higley said the victim believes the mischief was in retaliation for the windshield smashing incident next door. Police have a suspect. Officer James Bernard is investigating.

In other police news, Bernard is investigating a reported burglary and theft of four packs of cigarettes and change Sunday from a Waldo Street apartment.

Higley was called to Rumford Hospital at 11:50 p.m. Wednesday after a 21-year-old Rumford man reported that he had been “jumped and assaulted” at 11 p.m. while out walking on trails near the Hosmer Field complex.

Higley said the man was treated for a cut over his right eye and released. Higley and officer Paul Casey investigated the complaint but found no evidence of an assault in the area where the victim said it occurred.

“There was no blood and no signs of a fight or struggle,” Higley added. Casey is following up on the investigation.

Earlier Wednesday, Bernard investigated a reported narcotic incident on Falmouth Street and learned that children who had been walking along a trail had found a discarded diabetes insulin hypodermic needle and brought it home.

Higley said parents should make sure children understand that they should never pick up discarded hypodermic needles when found, but rather report the findings to police immediately.

Wild animals also found their way onto the police blotter.

While out on patrol at 9:16 a.m. Thursday, officer Peter Casey said he “terminated” a raccoon that initially was walking down the middle of the Isthmus Road before moving to the roadside and taking “a very aggressive stance toward my cruiser.”

“I could see several porcupine quills extending from its mouth. It was wounded and couldn’t maintain its balance,” Casey noted in his report.

The other incident occurred on Friday when a Mountain Valley High School bus driver flagged down Halacy and said he had observed a coyote near the school. Halacy said it was the second such reporting of a coyote hanging around the school.

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