Two 16-Year-Olds Charged After Taking Cops On Chase In Stolen Car: PD

BRANFORD, CT — While investigating a car crash with injuries on North Main Street near Chestnut Street Monday, "civilians, medics, and officers" were in the roadway near the scene of the accident. Suddenly, police said, a stolen car raced through the accident scene at a high rate of speed.

Though Branford police officers attempted to stop the vehicle, the driver took off after driving through a business' parking lot, jumped a curb and fled south on Chestnut Street, authorities said.

The vehicle was later discovered abandoned in the parking lot of a business on East Main Street, police noted on Facebook. Investigators got surveillance video from the business and after investigation, two 16-year-olds were identified, police said.

Tuesday, the teens were found and taken into custody at a Branford home, police said. One of the teens, from Meriden, had multiple active arrest warrants, including an arrest warrant from Southington for first-degree robbery with a firearm.

Branford police found and seized a Glock replica firearm while making the arrest, they posted.

Both juveniles were charged with larceny of a motor vehicle, third-degree burglary for breaking and entering into the vehicle, criminal mischief, and criminal trover, police said. The teen from Meriden, who was named as the driver of the stolen car, was also charged with reckless endangerment, reckless driving, and engaging officers in a pursuit, police said.