CARRBORO -- Four people, three of them teenagers, were arrested early Sunday morning and charged with bashing the windows and windshields of eight vehicles in Chapel Hill and Carrboro. Damage to the cars and three mailboxes that also were vandalized was estimated at between $10,000 and $20,000. "This is one of two or three times we've ever parked on the street, and that happened to be the night some vandals were driving around," said Robert Craig Romaine of Carrboro, whose Toyota Highlander was damaged. "We had a great block party the night before, so it was a bummer to wake up to our windows smashed."

A Carrboro police officer was responding to a call about a damaged vehicle on Cates Farm Road around 3 a.m. when he saw headlights down the street and heard the sound of metal hitting metal. Two police cars stopped the vehicle, a light-colored SUV containing a driver and four passengers. An officer approached the driver's side door and saw blood on the side of vehicle and on a passenger's shirt, according to a police report.

Police searched the SUV. They reported finding an open container of beer, marijuana paraphernalia, a tire iron, a wooden ax handle, a baseball bat and broken glass.

Police charged Joseph Richard Becker, 16, of 526 Gibbon Drive; Jennifer Lee Watson, 21, of 2701 Homestead Road; Connor Harris Davis, 16, of 704 Davie Road; and Josue Samuel Valeriano, 16, of 804 Powell St., with 10 or more counts each of injury to personal property, according to police reports.

Watson was also charged with providing alcohol to the group. Police did not charge the fifth person, a 15-year-old. "These incidents don't happen often, but when they do it's discouraging," said Carrboro Police Capt. Joel Booker. "There's an underlying involvement of drugs and alcohol."

Steve Lin, who has lived in the Lake Hogan Farms neighborhood for three years, said his Honda Odyssey minivan sustained more than $1,000 in damage. The back and side windows were broken out and the front windshield was shattered, Lin said.

"It's a secluded street," he said. "I don't know if that makes it more susceptible or less. ... It was actually my mom's minivan. She just left it here for the weekend."

In addition to the vehicles damaged in Carrboro, Chapel Hill police reported that some vehicles off Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard were vandalized. The dented mailboxes appeared to have been struck only once. However, because several of the cars had both their front and back windshields damaged, officers and residents said the cars might have been struck in two or more passes.

The suspects were released on $10,000 bail.