DIXFIELD – Two teenagers were arrested last weekend and charged with breaking into two Dixfield homes and stealing alcohol, money and electronic equipment, according to police reports.

Joshua A. Johnston, 18, of Dixfield was arrested Saturday and charged with two counts of burglary and one count of theft. Two additional charges of theft were levied against him in a criminal complaint filed Tuesday.

Anthony J. Niblick, 19, of Peru was arrested Sunday and charged with two counts of burglary.

Both men were arrested by Sgt. Roy Hodgdon of the Mexico Police Department.

They were held at the Oxford County Jail in Paris on $5,000 bail or $25,000 surety. Niblick was free on property bail on the same day of his arrest, and Johnston made cash bail on Tuesday, according to jail records.

Hodgdon’s account said the first burglary was reported Monday, April 2, at 5 p.m. The son of the owner of a residence on Coburn Avenue noticed his X-Box 360 was missing. He later found that several bottles of liquor were missing or had been emptied, and a jar containing $90 in change had also been stolen.

The son said he had seen four males near his house when he was driving home. He recognized two of the boys, according to the report, and stated “he had seen both of the males hanging out in the general area of his residence and Dixfield.”

The next day, Hodgdon got a call that an iPod and a digital camera had also been taken from the residence.

On Wednesday, April 5, another burglary was reported on Coburn Avenue. Officer Dustin Broughton of the Mexico Police Department found that a padlock had been forcibly pried off the door of a home. The owner reported the theft of a pellet gun and between 50 and 70 DVDs. He also said there was damage to the interior, and several empty liquor bottles were in the house.

The arrest report stated Johnston agreed to talk to police after the residents of the first house identified him from a yearbook on Saturday, April 7. He denied being involved in the burglary, but said he had bought a backpack full of liquor from a man who only identified himself as Kyle. Johnston said his foster parents had discovered the liquor and taken it from him, the report said.

Hodgdon later recovered the liquor from the foster parents’ residence and found that they matched the descriptions of the liquor missing from the first residence, the arrest report stated.

Hodgdon then met with a 17-year-old who confessed that he, Johnston, Niblick and another juvenile had burglarized both residences, his report stated. Hodgdon said the suspect said the decision to rob the houses was “a group idea.”

The suspect said he had seen Johnston take the X-Box and carry it and much of the liquor in a backpack, but was uncertain if he had taken anything else, the arrest report stated.

Johnston’s court date has been set for May 24 and Niblick’s has been set for June 21, according to records at Oxford County Superior Court. Their conditions of release include no contact with the victims or other suspects and a 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. curfew. They are also forbidden to use drugs or alcohol or enter a residence, business, or school.

Niblick’s conditions of release list a fifth person, a 25-year-old male, whom he cannot have contact with, the court record states. That condition is not listed on Johnston’s conditions.

Mexico police were unavailable for comment.