SAN JUAN COUNTY, N.M. – Neighbors in a Four Corners neighborhood say someone was intentionally throwing roofing nails at their political signs, and they’re fed up with it. 

“It was Christmas Eve, my youngest son and my nephew were out walking around and found the nails on the up by the road thrown into the driveway area where everyone enters,” said Taissa Alcon. 

Alcon says since then, she and her family members have picked up dozens of roofing nails from outside their home at least five different times. 

“He and my niece wound up picking up 69 nails yesterday. My husband came straight up and found another countless of like 60 something else again,” said Alcon.

After checking with other neighbors, calling San Juan County Sheriffs Office, and picking up yet another round of nails, Alcon had enough. 

“We put the cameras up that next morning, and within two, I believe it’s two days after putting the cameras up, we caught him on camera,” said Alcon. 

Turns out she wasn’t the only one. 

“We just started noticing nails up by our top of our driveway. Oh, geez, it’s been probably, I want to think, six months,” said Donna Smith. 

Smith says she reported it as well, especially after the thrown nails caused costly damage. 

“I had two rear flat tires, and I didn’t put it together right away, because my tires just kept going low, and it didn’t just pop, you know? And so then I went in to get it fixed, and the guy’s like, ‘You got nails in both your tires,’” said Smith. 

Smith also invested in a camera and says they caught the man responsible. 

“We went and put their game camera up there, and we got a picture of the guy coming in the other lane. Then the neighbors got a hold of us because they had the same thing happening,” said Smith.

On Friday morning, this case took a turn.

“Today, my husband was going into town for an appointment, and he just happened to see this guy throw the nails out of his car into our neighbor’s yard. So he called me, I called the sheriff, he called the sheriff. My husband turned around and followed the guy down the road. By then the cops were coming and pulled them over, and I guess he admitted that it’s a political issue, because we have Trump flags up, and that’s where we stand right now,” said Smith. 

“We are going to pursue charges no matter what. I know for a fact that they let him go today after they saw him because I was actually standing there at that moment. He needs to learn a lesson. One of our biggest frustration was the bus pulls into that drive also to pick up our kids in the morning and take them to school, if anything was to have happened that a blowout on that bus, and those kids being on there, that is what really got me the most,” said Alcon. 

While an arrest hasn’t been made, both neighbors and others say they’re pressing charges and keeping their signs up. 

“I just wish people wouldn’t be so ignorant and keep their thoughts to themselves. you know, that’s it,” said Smith. 

“I don’t care what his beliefs are. I can believe what I want to believe, and I’ll continue to believe what I want to believe, but you’re putting my children and other people in our community at risk,” said Alcon. 

KOB 4 reached out Friday to the San Juan County Sheriff’s Office for more information, but they did not get back.