Man with sledgehammer pounds dozen parked Dallas police cars

DALLAS – Authorities say a man took a sledgehammer to about a dozen squad cars in a Dallas police station parking lot.

Police say the man walked into the Dallas Central Patrol parking lot at the city’s marshal’s office detention centre before dawn Sunday and started hitting the cars. The centre holds people arrested for public intoxication and other low-level misdemeanours.

His name hasn’t been released and other details of the incident haven’t been disclosed.

Authorities say the man has been taken to jail.

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