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SEATTLE - Police say members of a teen crime ring suspected of recent break-ins at car lots in the Seattle area tried to break into two marijuana dispensaries early Tuesday in Seattle.
The six teens were arrested soon afterward when officers spotted them driving around in a stolen SUV, police said.
The incident began Tuesday at about 3:30 a.m. when officers responded to reports of an alarm ringing at a dispensary in the 12000 block of Aurora Avenue North, said Jonah Spangenthal-Lee of the Seattle police.
When officers arrived, they found someone had used a brick to smash the front window of the business. Several of the teens entered the store, but weren’t able to make it past the shop’s secure lobby door. They left empty-handed.
About an hour after, as officers were still collecting evidence at the scene of the Aurora Avenue break-in, police received a report of another burglary at a dispensary in the 8700 block of Greenwood Avenue. At the business, officers found a hole in a fence and a boot print on the business’ smashed back door.
A witness told police the suspects had fled the scene in a blue Toyota SUV, which officers quickly found and pulled over in the 9000 block of 2nd Avenue NW.
Six teenage boys were found inside the vehicle, and police were able to connect them to the two pot shop break-ins with the help of surveillance video, Spangenthal-Lee said.
He said police then determined that several of the teens have ties to a recent rash of break-ins at Seattle-area car dealerships, and were driving a stolen SUV when pulled over by police.
Officers booked five of the teens into the King County Youth Service Center and released one boy to his mother at the North Precinct.
The six teens were arrested soon afterward when officers spotted them driving around in a stolen SUV, police said.
The incident began Tuesday at about 3:30 a.m. when officers responded to reports of an alarm ringing at a dispensary in the 12000 block of Aurora Avenue North, said Jonah Spangenthal-Lee of the Seattle police.
When officers arrived, they found someone had used a brick to smash the front window of the business. Several of the teens entered the store, but weren’t able to make it past the shop’s secure lobby door. They left empty-handed.
About an hour after, as officers were still collecting evidence at the scene of the Aurora Avenue break-in, police received a report of another burglary at a dispensary in the 8700 block of Greenwood Avenue. At the business, officers found a hole in a fence and a boot print on the business’ smashed back door.
A witness told police the suspects had fled the scene in a blue Toyota SUV, which officers quickly found and pulled over in the 9000 block of 2nd Avenue NW.
Six teenage boys were found inside the vehicle, and police were able to connect them to the two pot shop break-ins with the help of surveillance video, Spangenthal-Lee said.
He said police then determined that several of the teens have ties to a recent rash of break-ins at Seattle-area car dealerships, and were driving a stolen SUV when pulled over by police.
Officers booked five of the teens into the King County Youth Service Center and released one boy to his mother at the North Precinct.
