Film Captures Vandalism : Besieged Family Wins Guilty Plea of Intruder

After seeing his Tudor-style home draped with toilet paper and splattered with eggs about 15 times, a Tarzana executive set up a movie camera in his living room to catch the pranksters on film.

Dennis Flier said his diligence paid off Nov. 29 when a car pulled up in front of his house about midnight. Those inside the car had rolls of blue and green toilet paper, he said.

Flier not only caught the arrival on film, but, after a struggle, caught one of the pranksters. Wednesday, that prankster pleaded no contest in Van Nuys Municipal Court to a charge of trespassing.

In the midst of a jury trial, which featured the somewhat hazy film as evidence, Gregory Glasser, 18, of Tarzana accepted a plea bargain. In exchange for his plea, a charge of battery was dropped. He was sentenced to 12 months on probation and ordered to stay away from the Flier family.

“We were tormented for over a year, week after week,” Flier said Wednesday after Glasser’s plea.

There is no evidence that Glasser was involved in any previous vandalism at the Flier home. And no one has an explanation of why the Flier home was targeted.

Flier said it will cost $3,000 to repair damage the eggs have done to his house, garage and cobblestone driveway. Besides defacing the house with eggs and toilet paper, the vandals wrote obscenities on it with catsup and shaving cream.

Flier injured his hand in the scuffle with Glasser and the three other youths last November and underwent hand surgery.

Glasser, a student at San Diego State University, faces a restitution hearing in the case Dec. 30.