Security cameras in the parking garage at California University of Pennsylvania played a key role in the arrest Sunday of two men accused of damaging vehicles used by the California University of Pennsylvania park and transportation office.

University police arrested Tyler Ballengee, 21, of Enon Valley and Michael Koran, 20, of Moon Township. Both were charged with institutional vandalism, criminal mischief and criminal conspiracy and taken to the Washington County Jail on a $5,000 straight cash bond.

Police allege that in the early-morning hours of Feb. 26, Ballengee and Koran damaged two university-owned Smart cars that were parked in the Vulcan Parking Garage on the campus in California.

Damage to the cars, which are used for parking enforcement on campus, was estimated at $1,500 in all.

Neither of the accused men is a student at the university. Police say they were visiting California when the incident occurred.

Police distributed security-camera images of the suspected vandals to local newspapers and television stations in February. The images recently were used again in a demonstration of the security system, and someone at the Vulcan Village housing complex recognized the two men.

Ballengee and Koran were arrested at police headquarters in Allegheny County, where they are facing separate charges for an unrelated incident.

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