A 52-year-old man has been arrested in connection with a string of attacks on vehicles on freeways around Monterey County, authorities said. Investigators said Lafferty committed the attacks from behind the wheel of a pickup truck, using a slingshot to launch glass marbles at the driver’s side windows and windshields of oncoming vehicles. (Monterey County Jail)The inquiry, which officials termed the “projectile alley investigation,” had bedeviled authorities for nearly a year, prompting the California Highway Patrol to form a task force to find who was responsible. Authorities identified a GMC Sonoma pickup as the vehicle used in some of the attacks and then linked Lafferty to the truck, they said. On Wednesday, law enforcement authorities from the CHP and the Monterey County Sheriff’s Office executed several search warrants on homes in San Luis Obispo and Monterey counties.

Source: Los Angeles Times January 24, 2020 18:33 UTC