Teens Charged With Stealing Items From Unlocked Car on Central Street

A pair of teenage boys from Wilmette were arrested late Thursday night after allegedly stealing several items from an unlocked vehicle in the 2600 block of Central Street in Evanston.

The suspects, one 14 years old and the other 15, were each charged with one count of burglary to motor vehicle and petitioned to juvenile court shortly after 11:23 p.m. Thursday, when Evanston police officers were dispatched to the scene on a call of two male subjects in a rear alley checking door handles on vehicles.

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Police say the two matched the description given by the initial caller when they were found in the 2700 block of Central Street with a Garmin GPS, loose change, three pairs of glasses, fossil rocks and a wallet that contained another individual’s credit cards and identification.

Officers were also able to locate an unlocked vehicle in the vicinity of where the juveniles were stopped that appeared to have been burglarized. The registered owner of that vehicle subsequently identified the fossil rocks and one pair of the eyeglasses as being stolen from the vehicle, which was left unlocked at the time of the incident.

Juvenile detectives from Evanston and Wilmette police departments are currently working to identify other possible victims who may have been burglarized.

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