Boys Charged In Connection With Crime Spree In Stolen Car

Two young brothers have been charged after police said they were caught driving a stolen car in the middle of the night, then confessed to a day-long crime spree.

State police officers stopped a Pontiac Grand Am at around 3 a.m. Friday and said they found a 12-year-old boy behind the wheel with his 8-year-old brother in tow.

Both boys are charged with theft of a motor vehicle, criminal mischief, trespassing and violating curfew.

Police said the older boy told police that he and his brother stole a wallet on Thursday. Later, they went back to the same area on Fairmont Avenue and broke into two dump trucks, police said. According to police, the boys said they stole a fire extinguisher from one of the trucks and sprayed it into a vehicle parked near a home.

Police said the boys told police they broke into another vehicle and started it but didn't drive away. When they left the vehicle, they took the keys with them "because it had a bullet on the key ring and they stated that they were going to try and fire it off," according to the police report.

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The boys told police they broke into another vehicle, then went to a tire shop and tried to start an all-terrain vehicle.

After that, the boys told police they went to a high school and broke into about six school buses. There, they took a fire extinguisher from a bus and set it off inside another bus, police said.