Could It Be Any More Obvious?

Staten Island police have identified a suspect in the case of dozens of smashed car windows. Police now are relatively certain that the vandalism was perpetrated in order to score up business for an unscrupulous windshield repair operation:

Inspector Richard Bruno, commander of the North Shore’s 120th Precinct, said last night that police believe a Great Kills man is responsible for smashing 86 car windows in a rash of vandalism for profit.

Bruno said that Charles A. Castrovinci, 30, of the 500 block of Tennsyon Drive allegedly broke the windows last month on the North Shore in an attempt to drum up business for his windshield repair business.

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Detectives apparently are in the process of building a case against the suspect for breaking auto windows.

“To put it lightly, he’s temporarily out of business,” Bruno said to much applause.

Bruno previously told the Advance that 20 windows were damaged during the night of Feb. 21 and another 66 were broken during the night of Feb. 24.

“Right before the breaks,” Bruno said, “he handed out his business card to all these auto glass places and explained to them that he would go and repair these windows in people’s driveways, and charge them a surcharge and kick back the surcharge to them [the businesses].”

Bruno added: “Right after the window breaks, this new business started advertising.”

Bruno showed a copy of Castrovinci’s ad, which read: “ABC Autoglass, Specializing in Cracks + Chips. Windshields $125 and Up.”