MALIBU, Calif.—A 55-year-old man was in custody July 10 on suspicion of committing numerous acts of vandalism in Malibu while wielding a pickaxe.
Thomas Aaron Brothers was identified as a suspect in numerous incidents of vandalism in the Malibu area over a three-day period, which included damage to numerous vehicles, residential front doors, and cameras throughout the city, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department’s Malibu/Lost Hills station reported.
Deputies followed a tip on Friday regarding Brothers’ whereabouts and saw him exiting a Metropolitan Transportation Authority bus at Ocean and Colorado boulevards in Santa Monica. Along with Santa Monica Police Department officers, they canvassed the area but Brothers was not initially located….