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Vandals deface business, street signs in Juliette

Monroe County deputies are investigating a string of bizarre graffiti messages in Juliette.

Monroe County deputies are investigating a string of bizarre graffiti messages in Juliette.

13WMAZ visited the scene and talked to a business owner whose shop was vandalized.

Shirley Bostick has spent a lifetime cutting hair, and for most of it, she's been in her Monroe County salon.

"Well, I've been doing hair for 54 years and I've been up here for all but 18 of those," said Bostick.

Her granddaughter Ciara works in Macon but also helps at Shirley's shop and says in Juliette, surprises are rare.

"Very quiet -- nothing ever happens here and if it does, everyone knows about it," said Ciara.

But Wednesday morning, Shirley and Ciara found something that left them almost speechless.

"I mean, it's just... I don't understand. First of all, like when and where? Like, who does this?" Ciara said.

Graffiti was scrawled across the side of the salon, ranting about Georgia Power and calling to "Save JULIETTE" painted on a building just a few miles from Georgia Power's Plant Scherer.

And according to Lieutenant Lawson Bittick with the Monroe County sheriff's office, this isn't the only place this has happened.

"They also marked or vandalized a stop sign, they vandalized Highway 87 near McCracken intersection, and they vandalized this sign that's directly behind me," said Bittick.

Bittick says his office is investigating, but so far doesn't have any suspects or an idea on a motive. As for the Bosticks, they're just trying to understand why someone would vandalize their business.>

Ciara said, "There's different ways to express yourself. I mean, you can go to the Dollar General down the road and get a poster sign and put up a poster. You don't have to deface someone else's property. It's just, it just doesn't make any sense to me."

Police are asking the public's help on the case and the Bostick family has sweetened the deal, offering a $200 reward for information leading to whoever is responsible.

If you have any information on the case, you can call the Monroe County Sheriff's Office at 478-994-7048.

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