Vandals terrorized the family of a Plum Creek Timber Co. employee Monday night and defaced the company’s local headquarters and a private real estate firm, leaving behind splattered paint and animal guts.

Four windows were broken in the Oakland home of Jim Lehner, Plum Creek’s Northeast Division general manager, and vandals bombarded his house with orange paint, police said.

It was not the first time the Seattle-based company has been targeted since it announced earlier this year a 426,000-acre development and conservation plan for the Moosehead Lake region.

The company wants to develop house lots, sporting camps, resorts and a golf course and to place conservation easements on thousands of acres.

In Greenville, slogans such as “Leave Maine” and “Scum Creek,” as well as obscenities, were found in orange paint on the exterior walls of Muzzy’s Real Estate office, previously owned by Luke Muzzy, now Plum Creek’s senior land asset manager.

A disemboweled raccoon was left on the porch. The vandals applied glue to the door locks of the real estate office.

A reeking solution was dumped outside the real estate office and across the road at Muzzy’s home. A mixture of entrails, pig manure and hay was left on Muzzy’s porch steps, according to Greenville Police Chief Duane Alexander.

At the company’s Fairfield offices, Monday’s vandals left the rotting innards of a dead animal on the door handle and targeted the building with the same bright orange paint.

Alexander said Tuesday he thought all four incidents were done by the same people.

“This is a heinous crime that has gone outside the realm of going after a business but has targeted and victimized a particular family, and we are going to hunt [the vandals] down aggressively,” Alexander said. “They are a sick group of individuals.”

The FBI has been called to assist state, county and area police. A task force representing each of the agencies is expected to meet next week to share information.

Even though no application has yet been filed with the state Land Use Regulation Commission, vandals have destroyed and stolen independently owned logging equipment on Plum Creek land, broken into the company’s Greenville office and stolen computers, and slashed a tire and scratched words into the paint on Lehner’s vehicle.

“These are political extremists, and they’re bringing crime to the very place they’re trying to save; we don’t need that kind of saving,” Greenville Town Manager John Simko said Tuesday.

Lehner said it was troubling to have his home targeted. He said the damage was “considerable,” but he gave no dollar estimate.

“Right at the stroke of midnight they started throwing rocks at the house. It was a rock-paintball kind of combination,” he said by telephone. “It broke four windows; two of the rocks came into the house, so the living room was full of glass.”

His wife, who is recovering from an operation, was traumatized by the incident, Lehner said.

Lehner said that when he first heard the commotion Monday night, he thought the family cat had upset something downstairs in the home. When the noise continued, he went to investigate, thinking that someone was inside.

When he discovered the broken glass, he ran upstairs to dress and returned downstairs only to find that the vandals had disappeared.

“It’s one thing when they attack the company, but it’s something else when they start attacking families,” Lehner said Tuesday.

When he went to the Fairfield office, Lehner discovered that it, too, had been vandalized, he said.

“The other thing that is disturbing is they killed an animal as part of their little ritual, and they left the innards, the guts of it, hanging on the doorknob,” he said. The vandals also apparently spread a vile-smelling substance around the building.

Fairfield police Officer Amie Trahan, who responded to the report of an incident at Plum Creek’s local headquarters, said orange paint was splattered over the building in numerous locations.

The vandals apparently threw Christmas balls and light bulbs filled with paint against the building, she said. Trahan said the animal guts were wrapped around the door handle, and the rear feet of the animal had been placed at the base of the door.

She also said she believes the four incidents are related.

The building has surveillance cameras, and police are reviewing the tapes as part of the investigation, Trahan said.

In Greenville, Muzzy’s Real Estate was targeted although Luke Muzzy sold the business this summer to Joe Di’Angelo of Greenville, a resident not affiliated with Plum Creek, Muzzy said.

“It just turned my stomach,” Muzzy said. His wife and two children were home at the time, he said.

Di’Angelo and his agents were hard at work Tuesday morning, using a high-pressure washer to remove the orange paint. A strong odor similar to vomit could be smelled near the front door where the severed top half of a raccoon had been left. Christmas balls filled with paint also were used in the Greenville vandalism.

“It’s very cowardly people who did this,” Di’Angelo said Tuesday. He expressed his thanks to local residents and his agents for the support and offers of help Tuesday.

Gov. John Baldacci joined leaders of environmental and business groups in issuing a statement Tuesday decrying the vandalism and emphasizing that differences on issues should be debated in a civil manner.

“We believe that there is no room, whatsoever, for people to destroy property, damage homes or cause harm as a means to express their views. It is illegal, and it is abhorrent to the Maine way,” the statement said.

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Framed by a window rimmed with orange paint, Steve Bigelow of Advanced 1 Carpet Cleaning removes paint Tuesday from the Fairfield office of Plum Creek.

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Joe Di’Angelo, owner of Muzzy Real Estate in Greenville, tries to remove orange paint from his sign Tuesday.

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Jim Lehner, Plum Creek’s Northeast Division general manager, said vandals caused $8,000 in damage to his home in Oakland on Monday night. Three other locations associated with Plum Creek also were vandalized.

Pieces of a broken ornament stick to the siding of Jim Lehner’s home in Oakland. Vandals filled the ornaments with orange paint and then sealed them with wax.