Crime & Safety
Teenagers Arrested In Bellevue, Accused In Statewide Crime Spree
Police said the girls carjacked a car in Spokane las week, then continued on a crime spree hundreds of miles away.
BELLEVUE, WA — Bellevue police arrested three teenage girls this week following a crime spree that started across the state, investigators said. The Spokesman-Review reported the girls, 16 and 17 years old, carjacked a vehicle in Spokane and fled the area on Friday, Jan. 24.
According to the Associated Press, the trio arrived in Seattle the next day and were suspects in a theft, robbery, assault and hit-and-run case. On Sunday, the girls are accused of leading police on a high-speed chase over Interstate 90 before robbing a woman in a parking lot and running over her arm.
KING 5 reported the girls used the woman's stolen credit card for gas, then paid for a manicure with it before getting arrested by Bellevue officers near the salon.
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