Rash of racial vandalism in The Woodlands

In The Woodlands, authorities are looking into several cases of vandalism that included racial slurs — but they're not sure whether the incidents were actually racially motivated or were just kids' pranks.

The 10 vandalism incidents apparently happened late Monday night or early Tuesday morning. Montgomery County sheriff's Sgt. Art Galloway said calls began coming in Tuesday as people left for work from Indian Springs and Sterling Ridge in the southwestern Woodlands. The first call was about a car spray-painted with swastikas; two houses were painted with slurs and stone signs at a neighborhood entrance had profanity and racial slurs scrawled on them.

''We have no real suspects," Galloway told the Chronicle. "I don't think it is any particular group promoting hate. I think it's more juvenile criminal mischief."