Stark County businesses are dealing with frustration and cleanup because of a middle-of-the-night vandal.
Elegant Nails and Tanning is just one of several businesses that had windows and doors shattered at shopping plazas in the area of 30h Street and Cromer Avenue NW in Canton.
Someone also shattered a door to Dr. Trip's Travel agency in the same plaza, leaving glass all over the place.
Once inside, the intruder rummaged through things and busted open an inside door, but the owner said that nothing was missing.
A few doors down, a similar thing happened at Hair's To You salon.
"I don't understand why you would do that, anyone would do that," said Hair's To You salon owner Sue Carter.
Carter has owned the salon for 37 years.
The owner reported that a cash drawer was taken out, but it contained only change, and the vandal wasn't interested in that and left with nothing.
All of this happened around 1:30 a.m. Wednesday.
A Canton Clothing shop, Anomaly, just opened two months ago and was one of the stores that was vandalized in a different Canton plaza.
"Definitely aggravation just because I haven't been here very long and just being a little inconvenient with having to have it boarded up and stuff like that to keep it safe," owner Crystal Dawson Johnson said.
According to Dawson Johnson, the intruder also busted down an interior door and went through a cash drawer that only had change in it. In the end, the vandal left without taking anything.
A pet shop, Whiskers Wings and Wild Things, captured video of a possible vandal wearing a hoodie, walking outside the shops and holding something in his right hand. Moments later, the video shows him breaking glass at the salon.
In total, there were six break-ins, five at Canton businesses and one in Plain Township.
The owners are frustrated.
"They need to find a new purpose in life. I mean, this isn't going to get them anywhere, the way they're behaving. They're setting themselves up for a very bad future," said Dr. Trip's Travel owner Jill Pavia.
No arrests have been made. All the owners hope that the person responsible will be identified and arrested, as they are worried that the break-ins could continue.
"I want them caught pretty bad. You can't just go around tearing up people's stuff, and it was not only me obviously; there were several other business owners, but something needs to be done," Dawson Johnson said.
