Show I I I I I Juveniles Caught I With Stolen Auto at Crescent CrescentI I Following an alert by the Colorado State Highway Patrol Pa a stolen automobile was picked up near Crescent Junction Wednesday afternoon afternoon afternoon after after- noon and six juveniles two boys and four girls all 15 and nd 16 years of age were lodged in the Grand county jail They were driving a 1963 Mercury confirmed by the FBI as being a stolen vehicles I belonging to a Kansas resi resl I dent All occupants of at the car were Kansas City high school students According to the story told by the juveniles they left school chool about 3 pm p.m. Tuesday Oct 13 in a vehicle owned by one of the boys' boys mo mother her They ran out of gas at a n town near Kansas abandoned the car car and stole the Mercury They had no money and said they stole gasoline along the way and at Mack Colorado Wednesday Wednesday Wednes day t ey filled the vehicle at a gasoline station and drove off without paying Owner of the station called the Colorado patrol and description description des des- of the car and occupants occupants pants was radioed to Ralph Benson of the Utah Highway Patrol at Moab The arrest was made at Crescent I Junction by Patrolman Kay Jewkes I Benson said the Ju Juveniles juvenIles juveniles ju- ju admitted the theft of the vehicle later confirmed by the FBI The six offenders were held in the Grand county county county coun coun- ty Jail charged with interstate interstate inter inter- state transportation of ol a stolen auto until the U. U S S. S Marshall to take them into custody |