Driver busted for Petco Park field stunt
Driver doing donuts on Petco Park field gets arrested
Video shows a driver doing donuts on the field of San Diego's Petco Park. Staff at the baseball stadium made a citizens' arrest.
A man was arrested for felony vandalism after driving onto the baseball field at Petco Park, the home of the San Diego Padres, Friday morning.
The driver was seen having a joyride in a white SUV and spinning donuts from the pitcher’s mound to the outfield wall, in a video recorded Friday by Ryan Carlson, a Petco Park worker.
"At first I thought it was an employee taking this car for a test ride, just a little joyride," said Carlson. "Once the car came to a stop, and people started to surround it, that’s when I realized I might have just witnessed a crime."
Petco employees detained the driver and made a citizen arrest. Authorities charged the suspect with felony vandalism.
Petco Park was being converted back to a baseball field after it was the site for recent monster truck and dirt bike events in January.
Despite the ground crew’s effort to restore the field, a video with an aerial view over the park shows that the tire tracks resurfaced on Monday.
San Diego police confirmed with the San Diego Union-Tribune that official charges were made, but the suspect’s name "is not immediately available".