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Show THEFT OF CAES CLEARED BY JUVENILE ARRESTS Two 16-year-old Ptovo boys were in the hands of juvenile authorities today, after Provo police arrested them Saturday nigli and obtained confessions reportefly solving the thefts of eight utomobiles in Utah and Wasatch counties during the past 45 days. When the boys were arrested Saturday night in Provo by local police, each was in a separate car stolen the evening of Dec. 27 in Heber city from two Heber doctors. doc-tors. A history of tie car thefts allegedly al-legedly confessed by the boys include in-clude eight macSnes since mid-November, mid-November, all of irhich were abandoned aban-doned soon after they were stolen, with exception erf the two Heber cars, and have teen returned to their owners. The first car was stolen from Charleston near the middle of November, No-vember, driven tt Provo and abandoned aban-doned here. On Pec. 10 the youths allegedly stole tie car of a Payson resident, drove it to Springville and abandoned It. Dec. 11, they stole a car in Springville and abandoned it up Provo canyon. Several nights later they stole a car from Springville and attempted at-tempted to steal another from there the same night. They gave un on the seffflid one after rjush- ing it several blocks. The one they succeeded in stealing, they abandoned later in Provo. The night of Dec. 27 the youths took a car from Provo and drove it to Heber, abandoning it there, then stole tie cars of the two Heber doctor and returned to Provo, Pro-vo, where they were captured Saturday Sat-urday night, j Police said one of the boys was a repeated juvenile offender. Only two jf the cars were damaged dam-aged to any.extent. The first car stolen from pharleston was driven without oil, resulting in serious motor damage. The first car stolen from Springville was stripped of a battery box' and other accessories when abandoned up Provo canyon. |