For two consecutive Mondays, crews working to complete renovations to Sherman School so that it might reopen this fall entered to building to find someone had been there over the weekend. The visitors had smashed display cases, broken a window and vandalized exit signs and fire extinguishers. This Monday the Warwick School Department and police retrieved more than rubble from the beak-ins. They have photos of the uninvited visitors who appear to be five teens, boys and girls.

Steven Gothberg,  school Director of Capital & Construction Projects, said the images of the perpetrators were taken at 3 a.m. They show what appear to be people with flashlights in one of the school’s corridors, some looking directly at the camera that took their photos. One of several cameras was smashed but others kept running. 

“Who watching these kids,” Gothberg questioned of parental supervision. 

“We hope to identify them and we’re going to press charges. This is malicious damage that has to stop in order for us to complete renovations,” he said.

On Tuesday Warwick Police posted on their website one of the photos taken at Sherman asking for assistance in identifying the people pictured. As a result of the posting, Major Andrew Sullivan said yesterday two “young adults” 18 and 20 years old have been arrested and additional suspects are being questioned. He said none are Warwick residents and that additional information would be forthcoming.