Calls about broken car windows in Kettering and other area communities were still coming in Friday afternoon several hours after Kettering Police arrested three teen-aged males for the crimes.

“We’re right at 50 cars, but we’re still hearing from people,” said investigating detective Mike Winters. “I imagine there are some people who are just discovering the damage that was done overnight.”

Kettering Police said the boys’ car was stopped at 4:03 a.m. Friday in the North Marshall Road and Sharon Avenue area after a report at 3:43 a.m. of people looking into vehicles near Lanbury Drive and Endover Road. The caller said the teens’ vehicle was a gray four-door Toyota or Nissan.

Officers found slingshots, marbles and alcoholic beverages in the car, but believe the windows were broken out with BB guns.

Police said the suspects confessed after being interviewed. One of them led officers to his residence, where the BB guns used to shoot out the car windows were seized.

Besides Kettering, vehicles parked in West Carrollton, Miami Twp. and Moraine were also damaged beginning Sunday night.

Nothing was reported stolen in the earliest incidents.

“We love to get the work, but we hate to get it this way,” said Kathy Burek, an employee at Guardian Auto Glass in Kettering, where some of the damaged cars have been repaired.

Average cost of installing new windows due to the incidents has been between $175 and $200.

“Some have been more than that. Some cars have had both front-door windows broken out. One man had two cars damaged. Both are older models and he wasn’t carrying much insurance on them anymore. He was getting ready to give them to his kids,” she said.

Unlike a windshield, which is laminated glass, Burek said, “car windows are tempered glass. When that’s broken, it crystallizes into a zillion pieces that need to be vacuumed up. Those windows just explode when they’re broken.”

Winters said people with more information or reports of similar damage should call him at the Kettering Police Department, (937) 296-2577.