Show young offenders lead in arrests in united states washington out of arrests in the first nine months of this year throughout the country the largest number of prisoners in any age group were aged twenty two prior to 1935 the arrested persons aged nineteen outnumbered other age groups the federal bureau of investigation revealing the results ol of an examination of records adds that for age twenty this year arrests were substantially lower than for ages twenty one and nineteen more than half the total arrests were of persons under thirty years of age youths predominated in arrests for offenses against property such as robbery larceny automobile theft and burglary persons under twenty five numbered 53 per cent of those charged with robbery 61 per cent of those charged with burglary 48 per pent of those charged with larceny and nearly 73 per cent of those charged with automobile theft over 40 per cent of those arrested between january and the end of september were represented in the fingerprint file of the identification division of the F B I 1 many had been convicted previously of one or more offenses about fugitives were identified during this period by the divisions fingerprint records more than police departments peace officers and lawen law en agencies are now voluntarily contributing fingerprints to the F B I 1 murder and aggravated assault occur most frequently during the third quarter ot of the year according to the records off offenses anses against property robbery burglary larceny and automobile theft reach their peak in the first quarter |