NEWPORT — A vandalism spree in which car tires were slashed, bus windows smashed and racist slurs spray painted on a homeowner’s car, garage and fence has turned out to be very costly for two Newport men.

Brandon Teeter and Devin Croteau — who went on a multi-day series of vandalism attacks around Claremont and Newport in 2023 — have been ordered to pay a total of nearly $58,000 in restitution, according to court documents.

Teeter, 25, pleaded guilty to three counts of criminal mischief in Sullivan County Superior Court on Tuesday, for which he received multi-year prison sentences all suspended and five years probation, providing he remains on good behavior.

Croteau, 23, pleaded guilty to similar charges and likewise received suspended prison sentences this month, court documents show.

Under the plea agreements — which included prosecutors dropping additional counts of criminal mischief — Teeter and Croteau are together required to pay $28,044 to McGee Mazda in Claremont, $19,000 to Primex, the insurance provider of the Newport School District, and $199 to a Newport resident whose property was sprayed with racist graffiti.

A third accomplice, Samuel Bathrick, pleaded guilty to a single count of criminal mischief and was handed down a suspended six-month jail sentence and ordered to undergo counseling. Prosecutors dropped charges against a fourth man in the group, Zachery Fuller, after he was found not competent to stand trial.

The four men participated in multiple vandalism attacks, the first on Oct. 23, 2023, when Teeter drove Croteau, Bathrick and Fuller to the Newport Public Works site — where the school buses were parked, according to indictments brought against them. While Teeter and Bathrick “served as lookout,” the others smashed the windows and spray painted six buses, causing an estimated $100,000 in damages.

That same night they also struck a home on Beech Street in Newport, where Croteau spray painted “racist slurs” on the garage and vehicle. Then, 24 days later, on Nov. 16, 2023, Teeter again drove the group to McGee Mazda in Claremont, where Croteau slashed the tires of about 20 vehicles in the dealership’s parking lot, causing more than $20,000 in damages, the indictments said.

Attorneys for Teeter and Croteau did not respond to emails for comment on Tuesday.

Teeter and Croteau also are ordered to pay $199 in restitution to Ken Sawyer, of Newport, whose vehicle, garage and yard fence was sprayed with racist graffiti.

Sawyer, whose teenage daughter is Black, said the vandalism has had a lasting, painful impact on his family.

His 18-year-old daughter has moved in with her grandparents “in another town because she doesn’t feel safe here any longer,” Sawyer said on Tuesday.

Sawyer said he might have liked to see the men spend some time behind bars, but he nonetheless took some solace in their sentences.

“Five years probation is a long time for those knuckleheads” to stay out of trouble, Sawyer noted.

He said the “neighborhood came together” and it was his neighbors’ security cameras that helped Newport police to identify the perpetrators.

Now Sawyer said he has installed security cameras at his house.

But as for the perpetrators themselves, Sawyer said he has not heard a word.

“They’ve never reached out to us to apologize,” he said.

Contact John Lippman at jlippman@vnews.com.