We learned from one of the owners of the break-ins near St. Philip Neri that police have apprehended a 16-year old who was positively identified as one of the two criminals who broke into the houses on Homewood and Wilben Roads. The homeowner spoke with the Northern District Police Station's Detective Paine, who said the suspect was caught after he took a bag full of coins to Shoppers Food Warehouse to convert to dollars. Broken glass got into the change machine and ruined it, so management there became suspicious and reported it to police. ...
The teen was on the store's video camera, and the police tracked him down and positively linked him to the break-ins by his fingerprints. The second of the two suspects, identified as the "red spikey-haired criminal" remains at-large.
The police said the apprehended teen does not attend school and does not live with his parents, and has been in and out of juvenile detention for three years. Apparently he was cocky with the police, telling them they could only prove one of three break-ins he is implicated in, and that the one they could get him on will only result in community service. He was not afraid, and was not sorry, and didn't appear to have any desire or incentive to reform.
As others have reported, the crime gang uses a gray van as a get-away vehicle. In the Wilben Road case, the teens used a cell phone to communicate with the person in the van. The police know this now.
-- Laura Graham
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