JAY – Two teenagers accused of stealing a car early Sunday from a warehouse on Route 17 dropped off two other boys on Riley Road who then stole an International Paper employee’s truck from the mill’s parking lot, police said Wednesday.
In addition, a 17-year-old Jay boy, one of two accused of stealing the truck, has been charged in connection with doing an estimated $1,800 damage to the Jay High School football field, Jay police special investigator Roderick Small said.
The stolen truck, reported missing Sunday morning after the IP employee finished his shift, was discovered Wednesday in good condition at a Canal Street parking lot in Wilton by Wilton police after the 17-year-old teenager told Jay police where it was, Small said.
All four youths, two from Jay, ages 15 and 17, and two from Wilton, ages 15 and 16, are accused of stealing a car parked behind SIB Enterprises, the former Bass warehouse, on Route 17, Small said.
Livermore Falls police officer Steve Gould spotted the car about 12:30 a.m. Sunday, and after interviewing the two 15-year-old occupants learned it was stolen, police said Tuesday. The Wilton teen driving it also was operating on a driver’s learning permit and was charged with that infraction, police said. Gould charged the two for being in possession of stolen property – the car – on Sunday.
The 17-year-old Jay boy and the 16-year-old Wilton boy that are accused of taking the truck, Small said, face additional charges of unauthorized use of property for stealing the truck.
The 17-year-old was also charged Wednesday with criminal mischief for doing “doughnuts” on the football field and tearing up the grass with the stolen truck, Small said.
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