Police arrest Alexander Yee for allegedly tampering with women's cars in Milford
MILFORD - Alexander Yee, the man wanted by Milford Police for allegedly tampering with women's cars, was arrested Tuesday in Winchendon.
Police said Yee, 38, of Winchendon, had been targeting young women recently by flattening their tires, filling their gas tanks with water and then offering to drive them home.
"His reasoning behind this is he enjoys seeing people disabled," said Milford Deputy Chief John Sanchioni.
Investigators linked Yee to the recent incidents through the GPS tracking device he was wearing from a previous crime and through surveillance video at the Milford Target, according to Sanchioni.
Police in Holliston and Franklin said they have had similar reports. Bellingham police said they are investigating a similar incident at the Charles River Center. Medway is also part of the investigation.
Last fall, Yee was arrested in Southampton for putting water in a woman's gas tank. At the time investigators said he was suspected of similar incidents in Hampshire, Franklin, and Worcester counties as well as in southern New Hampshire.
Yee has previously called his car disabling a fetish.
"He's destroying people's cars too and well as traumatizing people," said one of Yee's victims.
The crime has impacted her behaviors. "Usually once I park, I look around, view the surroundings, making sure no one is sitting in their car looking at me because I had a feeling that's what he was doing in the parking lot, just surveying for victims," she told WBZ-TV.
Yee is expected to appear in court on Wednesday to face a charge of malicious destruction of property over $1,200.