by KYW's Mike Dunn
Philadelphia police are investigating what seems to be a perplexing bit of apparent vandalism: the glass in a door to an office of City Council president Anna Verna was smashed over the weekend.
Police were notified mid-afternoon Sunday that the glass portion of a door on the 4th floor of City Hall had been smashed. The door, they found, led to the district office of Council President Verna.
Her office manager, Maryanne Mahoney, was summoned and found that nothing had been disturbed:
“There’s absolutely nothing out of place. None of the desks were messed. There were radios and computers -- one of the girls even had a watch on the desk -- nothing was touched.”
City Hall was closed to the public at the time. Police have surveillance tapes from a camera in that hallway and are still investigating.
Verna has in the past voiced concern about having more officers patrol the corridors in off-hours. Right now you need to sign in to enter the building on the weekend, but a plan to require badges has not yet begun. A Street administration spokesman says that plan will be operational in the next two months.
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