Kim Murphy
LA Times
May 10, 2013
![Authorities said Barry Swegle, 51, who lives next door to the most damaged property, has been arrested on a charge of malicious mischief.](/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Bulldozer-Rampage.jpg)
A man in Port Angeles, Wash., went on a rampage with a bulldozer Friday afternoon after quarreling with a neighbor and plowed through four structures, a pickup truck and a power line, cutting electricity to homes as far as 20 miles away.
One of the homes was swept from its foundation and smashed into another house, Clallam County sheriff’s spokesman Jim Borte told the Los Angeles Times.
There were no apparent injuries, though a woman was at home in one of the less-damaged structures and managed to escape, he said.
Authorities said Barry Swegle, 51, who lives next door to the most damaged property, has been arrested on a charge of malicious mischief.
Borte said Swegle had apparently been involved in a dispute with a neighbor.
“As I understand it, there was an argument that had taken place,” he said. “This was the outcome of the dispute.”
Authorities said Swegle took an International Harvester TD-25 and aimed it squarely at the first house, pushing it 50 feet away into another house and running over a pickup truck in the process.
“The one house was actually taken off its foundation and was basically demolished,” Borte said. “He struck three … homes in the area, and also a garage. He also ran over the pickup truck from the back and over the cab. It’s completely totaled as well.”
Borte said he could not say whether the most damaged home belonged to the person with whom Swegle was allegedly arguing, but said police do not think anyone was present in that home.
“If anybody had been in that house, I don’t think they would have survived that,” he said.
Here is a video of the damages: