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Show Youth Held On Auto Theft Investigation A 15-year-old Cedar City youth, already on probation, was arrested in Cedar City after a cooperative effort between Panguitch City police po-lice and the Cedar City police department. de-partment. The youth was captured by the Cedar City High School principal and held for police after telephone conversations between authorities in both communities pieced together a trail of auto thefts involving in-volving at least three cars, possibly four, in Panguitch and Cedar City. Mayor Robert Linford's 1988 Chevy Cavalier, discovered in Panguitch. Pan-guitch. The youth was suspected of having been involved in a brief high speed chase on Monday, Oct. 23, in Cedar City when officers pursued a stolen 1988 gray van, backing off from the chase for fear that the juvenile driver could be injured. in-jured. Vehicles taken in Panguitch all had their keys left in the ignition and all were late model, luxury-type cars, said Than Cooper, whose persistence per-sistence in following up on related information paid off when he contacted con-tacted the Cedar City police department. depart-ment. All Panguitch cars had been located lo-cated in the same section of town and returned within a short distance of where they had been taken. Cooper theorized that one vehicle may have been used twice. Cooper discovered Linford's car on the morning of Oct. 25. The juvenile had been in the Panguitch area to take part in the deer hunt. He was referred to juvenile juve-nile authorities. |