PARKER TWP — State police say fingerprints on a beer can helped solve a nearly eight-month-old vandalism case.

Investigators suspect Austin A. George, 20, of Parker in May caused thousands of dollars in damage to property — a boat, all-terrain vehicle, golf cart and swimming pool — belonging to Bruce Hufnagle at his home on Maple Furnace Road in Parker Township.

Police last week filed a felony mischief charge against him.

Hufnagle was apparently away on May 30 when his daughter invited a few friends over for a get-together. During the evening, police said, more and more people began to show up.

Before the night was over, police said, someone entered a barn at the home and slashed the leather seats of a speed boat as well as the tires of the boat trailer.

The vandal sprayed rust-penetrating spray on the outside of the boat.

Additionally, a key was broken off in the ignition of an ATV next to the boat. A golf cart also was badly damaged with the motor separated from its frame and all four tires slashed.

Not untouched was an above-ground swimming pool, which was punctured 12 times with a knife, Inside the house, two chairs and eight women’s shirts and bedsheets were slashed.

During their investigation, police found Budweiser beer cans in the boat. Troopers were able to lift latent fingerprints from at least one of the cans.

“The prints pulled from the can belonged to George,” according to a police affidavit.

Investigators already had his fingerprints in the FBI’s computer database because of several prior arrests.

The suspect is currently awaiting sentencing in Butler County Court in connection with guilty pleas on misdemeanor charges of receiving stolen property, reckless endangerment and disorderly conduct in several criminal cases filed in 2014 and 2015, court records showed.

Police on Wednesday charged George in the May vandalism spree.

He is charged with a felony count of criminal mischief. In Pennsylvania, a criminal mischief rises to a felony grade when the monetary losses exceed $5,000.