Nine residences were splattered with washable paintballs New Year’s Eve and into the first day of 2013.
Police said homeowners were able to remove the orange-colored paint with little lasting damage.
Tuesday, police said they hadn’t charged anyone and the incidents were under investigation.
Paintballs were shot at a house on South 19th Avenue from occupants in a passing car at 9:11 p.m. Dec. 31, police said. Patrols checked the area, but found no one. No description of the car was given.
Minutes later, a resident on North 9th Avenue called to say his house was hit with paintballs, again with no damage. Police were given a make and estimated age of a vehicle.
A Green Avenue man called at 9 a.m. Jan. 1 to say five orange paintballs had hit his house. The owner removed the paint.
Patrolman William Sampson reported at 9:21 a.m. that four orange strikes had hit the front and door to a residence on North 10th Avenue. Seven minutes later, he reported four orange blotches on a Green Street house.
Fifteen minutes later, Patrolman Sampson reported two orange strikes to a Knopf Street residence and many hits on a realty sign in the lawn.
A North 9th Avenue man came to headquarters at 11:14 a.m. to report several paintball hits to the front of his house.
Officer Sampson reported at 11:34 a.m. several orange paintball strikes to the front of a North 9th Avenue house.

