In the Castle incident, vandals broke into student lockers and stole a golf cart.

The two cases appear connected because the golf cart stolen from Castle was found in the cart barn at the BayView course at 45-285 Kane'ohe Bay Drive. There are no security guards at the golf course and Castle High uses a roving security patrol at night. Neither site had security surveillance cameras.

Tony Kanzic, BayView’s director of golf, said 19 of his 45 golf carts were demolished by vandals who used them "to play bumper cars" on the course. Nine of the 19 carts were top-of-the-line carts, he said.

The cart’s fiberglass bodies sustained heavy damage and all have serious damage to the steering systems and tire frames, said Kanzic. One cart was found in a creek, two others in sand bunkers, three at a nearby elementary school, one on the property of a neighboring retirement center and the rest strewn over the course.

The estimated damage is about $65,000, said Kanzic. The damaged carts cannot be repaired and officials at the course are scrambling to get carts for a tournament of 92-100 players this weekend.

Judging from the cart use, Kanzic believes 18 people were involved. The vandals used a bolt cutter to snap a padlock to the cart barn at about 1 a.m. The damage was discovered yesterday at 5 a.m.

Police have made no arrests.

Castle principal Meredith Maeda said the school was vandalized between 9 p.m. Saturday and early Sunday morning. A bolt cutter was used to snap padlocks to 50 student lockers. Items from the lockers were scattered around the area. The padlocks belong to students.

The vandals also broke the exterior head of a water main.

"They’re really hurting our kids because when we get vandalized like this we have to spend funds to repair pipes or fix walls that would go to the kids," Maeda said.