Lang
7/18/21
A transient with a history of damaging motor vehicles now faces charges that he intentionally tipped over a motorcycle.
Iowa City Police responded to Bruegger’s Bagels on South Riverside Drive just before 10am Saturday for a man who had been rocking a parked motorcycle before tipping it over. When confronted by the motorcycle’s owner, the suspect allegedly came towards him, waving his arms and shouting profanity. The victim says 45-year-old Michael Dacunos also claimed he was upset because the man had punched him the previous night, although the motorcycle’s owner says he had never seen Dacunos before.
Damage to the motorcycle is estimated at $500.
Dacunos was arrested and charged with 4th Degree Criminal Mischief and Disorderly Conduct. If convicted on both charges, he faces a maximum of 13 months in jail.
Just before 3:45 Saturday morning a subject sleeping in his car in the parking lot behind Bruegger’s reported a subject had broken the side mirror off his vehicle. It is unknown if Dacunos is a suspect in that case.
Dacunos has a history of damaging motor vehicles. He was fined $210 in May after he hit a woman’s car with an umbrella near the corner of Highway 6 and Boyrum Street, breaking a side mirror. Dacunos was given a suspended sentence after breaking multiple car windows at Deery Brothers Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram on Highway 1 West, the 600 block of South Riverside Drive and the 1100 block of South Gilbert Street.