2 Juveniles Arrested In Joppa With Stolen Van: Police

JOPPA, MD — Two girls who were wearing monitoring anklets were taken into custody Monday afternoon at a Joppa gas station related to thefts, according to Maryland State Police. A plainclothes trooper noticed the juveniles park at Wawa on MD 152 near Interstate 95, walk toward a liquor store, stop and walk back to their vehicle before driving 0.2 mile away to another store, officials reported.

At 2:54 p.m. on Monday, police said the trooper requested a registration check from the Bel Air barrack on the blue Dodge van they drove into the parking lot; it had been stolen from Baltimore City earlier in the day, according to officials.

The officer dispatched a description of the girls, who drove to the corner of Mountain Road and Philadelphia Road and walked into the Carroll Fuel station, where other troopers responded and detained them.

Both girls were known to law enforcement and were also found with several credit cards that appeared to have been stolen from various victims in the last week, police reported.

They were taken into custody, according to police, who said their case is being handled by the Department of Juvenile Services.

According to The Dagger, the 15 and 17-year-old suspects were charged with unlawful taking of a vehicle and taken to the Waxter juvenile detention center in Laurel. The Dagger reported the vehicle had been stolen from the 5800 block of Willowton Avenue when the owner left it running unattended. The area of the theft is near Hillen Road at East Belvedere Avenue in Baltimore, nearly 20 miles from where they were arrested.

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