PERRY – Police are investigating complaints from four businesses that rocks and pieces of asphalt were hurled through their windows sometime Tuesday morning.

Maine State Police Trooper Miles Carpenter said Wednesday that the rock-throwing involves a business on state Route 191 and three on U.S. Route 1, all within a few miles of each other.

Carpenter said a piece of asphalt was thrown through the window at the business offices of Quoddy Bay LNG.

The Oklahoma-based company has only been at the Route 190 site for the past few months.

Two pieces of asphalt were thrown through a window at The New Friendly Restaurant on Route 1.

Across the road from the restaurant at the Wigwam Gift Shop, two rocks were thrown through a window. A small window at the Farmer’s Union, just a short distance down the road from the restaurant and gift shop, was also broken.

Carpenter said he thought the vandalism was the work of two or three juveniles.

Robert Patterson, owner of the restaurant, said the incident occurred early Tuesday.

“It happened somewhere around 1 in the morning,” he said, adding that the vandals broke one of his large picture windows. He said he had not yet received a repair estimate. “I know it’s going to cost me at least $250 for the deductible,” he said.

Patterson said he had been at that site for the past 19 years. “I feel pretty fortunate actually,” he said.

He said he kept the two pieces of asphalt that were thrown through his window.

The woman who answered the telephone at the Farmer’s Union said she was uncertain what may have been sent through their window, but confirmed that a small window near the front door had been broken.

“We don’t know, we never found what broke it,” she said.

At the Wigwam Gift Shop owned by Washington County commissioner Kevin Shorey, the woman who answered the telephone there said that two rocks were thrown through their picture window.

“It was the biggest window in the store,” she said. They were able to temporarily repair the window with a piece of Plexiglas they had on hand.

Quoddy Bay general manager Brian Smith did not return a telephone call Wednesday. The company is going through the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission permitting process to build a multimillion dollar liquefied natural gas facility at Split Rock on Passamaquoddy tribal land at Pleasant Point with a storage tank farm in neighboring Perry.

Anyone who may have seen suspicious activity in the vicinity of the four businesses is asked to call Carpenter at the Maine State Police at (800) 432-7381.