There has been a run on oven cleaner in Napa the past week. Unfortunately, the majority of the cleaner hasn’t seen the inside of an oven.

Instead, the spray has been used to damage vehicles all over town. Since June 17, police have taken 67 vandalism reports from Napa residents who said their vehicles have been doused with some type of acid.

“We believe the majority of the attacks have been vandals using oven cleaner spray,” Napa Police Sgt. Debbie Peecook said. “We have seen at least 80 cars that have vandalized.”

The vandals are targeting northwest Napa, hitting dozens and dozens of vehicles parked on the street and in driveways.

Brian Coutch, who lives in the 2400 block of Trower Avenue, got a quadruple dose of the vandals’ wrath.

Two of his vehicles parked in the street were damaged. Two others, including his company car, were hit sometime late Wednesday night and early Thursday morning.

“I never heard anything during the night. I got up at 6 a.m. (Thursday) to walk my dog and there it was. It looks as if who did this used paint thinner. The paint was literally bubbling off my truck. If you try to wash it off it, it goes down to the bare metal,” Coutch said. “I bet I have at least $15,000 in damages.”

Coutch said his neighbor was working on his Mercedes until around midnight. “They got him, too. There must have been at least 15 cars sloshed with the paint thinner on Trower,” he said. “I plan to put up a surveillance camera. The neighbors are talking about starting a Neighborhood Watch. We live in a nice part of Napa, and we need to take our neighborhood back.”

Ted Allen lives in the 4100 block of Maher Street, off Trower Avenue.

He got a double whammy, with two vehicles hit on two consecutive nights, Tuesday and Wednesday.

“Guess they figured they didn’t do a good enough job and came back a second time. It looks as if they used oven cleaner. It smells like oven cleaner and burns when you touch it,” Allen said. “The first night they got the tailgate of my pickup parked in the driveway. I backed the truck into the driveway and woke up this morning to find they had sprayed the hood.”

Allen said he counted at least 10 vehicles on his block that were hit.

“All the neighbors are talking about it. We’re all very upset. The first night it happened, I was mad, but thought ‘kids will be kids.’ But second time ... well, whoever is doing this is trying to do as much damage as possible. Everyone is going to have to have their cars repainted.”

Las Flores Drive resident Michael Williams discovered his Mustang and Taurus had been targeted on Wednesday night.

“It looks and smells like the oven cleaner you spray on. I got estimates for the damages today, and it’s going to cost me $2,400 for one car and $3,300 for the other,” Williams said. “We can’t let this keep happening. We need to form a Neighborhood Watch.”

Police have no suspects and no leads, Sgt. Peecook said.

“A couple of cars also have been keyed. We plan to have extra patrols in the neighborhoods that are being targeted,” she said. “We have been checking garbage cans to see if we can find out where they are ditching the oven cleaner cans, but we haven’t found anything so far. There is very little evidence we can collect. We respond to the calls, but the most we can do is take photos of the damage. We are really hoping someone will see something and call us.”

Peecook said, although the damage to the vehicles parked on the street is on the sidewalk side, they don’t know if the culprits are on foot, on a bicycle or in a vehicle.

The majority of the vandalism has happened on Trower Avenue, Maher Street, Flagstone Drive, Linda Vista Avenue, Linda Mesa Way, Fairfax Drive, Lloyd Drive, Las Flores Drive and Raleigh Street.

Anyone with information is asked to call Napa Police at 257-9223 or Sgt. Peecook at 257-9256.