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Three young siblings caught after breaking into plant, stealing snacks and tools
Aug 30, 2010 (Herald-Times - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) --
Three siblings tried to escape a manufacturing plant Saturday after they broke in, stole snacks and raced equipment inside, according to police.
Officers caught the two boys, ages 12 and 15, and their nine-year-old sister outside, but first they had to form a perimeter around the building while several alarms went off at once, Bloomington police Sgt. Joe Crider said.
All three children were referred to juvenile probation and the boys were taken to a southwest Indiana juvenile detention facility.
A commercial burglary alarm led police to the Schulte Corporation building on Strong Drive around 7:30 p.m., where they found shattered glass and a broken garage door panel, Crider said. Inside, a vending machine had been destroyed, according to a report.
Officer Trae Luck spotted the youngest brother first, but reported the boy ran from him and ignored all orders to stop. More alarms sounded throughout the building, detecting motion from more than one person inside, so police called for backup.
They eventually caught all three suspects and took them to the Bloomington Police Department, where their mother waited in the lobby.
In interviews the girl told police her brothers had found a key to a truck parked at the business earlier in the week.
She said she watched her brothers break open the panel door to the building Saturday and they all went inside. Her brothers had food and sodas, although she said she wasn't sure where or how they had gotten the snacks.
Then she watched her brothers race a forklift against a floor sweeper, the girl told police. She said they also took tools, drills and wrenches from the business earlier that day, hid them in a backpack and dropped them off at an abandoned house.
Police found and returned the tools.
The 12-year-old boy admitted he broke the glass of a vending machine and stole food, according to the report. He told police he knew what he had done was wrong, and that he was scared.
On Friday, a Schulte employee reported to police that two boys had broken into a company vehicle parked on the property. That employee identified the two boys Saturday as the same two boys who had burglarized the business.
Both boys face charges of resisting law enforcement, criminal mischief, burglary, theft and unauthorized entry of a motor vehicle, Crider said. The girl was released to her mother and referred to juvenile probation for criminal trespass.
Schulte describes itself online as a building products manufacturer that specializes in steel hardware and wire.
It is unclear from the police report whether or how the children were familiar with the building.
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