Middletown Teens Charged In Theft Of Car With Child Inside: PD

Middletown CT

09 March, 2022

3:08 PM

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MERIDEN, CT — Two Middletown juveniles have been charged in connection with stealing a vehicle that had a 2-year-old child inside last November in Meriden, according to a police statement. Meriden police received a call Nov. 5 at 12:45 p.m. reporting an Audi had been stolen on Liberty Street while parked in front of the address. Police learned that the 2-year-old child was several hundred feet from where the Audi was stolen. Police believe the thieves removed the child from the car and left the child on the side of Liberty Street. Witness accounts and surveillance footage showed that the suspects in the vehicle theft were accompanied by another car, a Hyundai Elantra, according to police. Police said both the Hyundai and the Audi drove on East Main Street after the child was left on the side of the street. Near 110 E. Main St., the Hyundai was passing other vehicles in an erratic manner and crashed into two other cars, according to police. The Audi then pulled up next to the crash, and the Hyundai's driver got in the Audi and fled, police said. The Hyundai was determined to be a stolen vehicle that was totaled in the crash. One of the other vehicles in the crash, a Tesla, was also significantly damaged. Police recovered the stolen Audi 10:15 p.m. the same day, which had been abandoned in Middletown. Meriden and Middletown police investigated the case. Two juvenile arrest warrants were obtained, with both suspects charged with third-degree larceny and conspiracy to commit third-degree larceny. Both juveniles are Middletown residents, according to police. One warrant has been served and the juvenile was issued a juvenile summons and released to a parent per the warrant's stipulation. The other juvenile warrant is expected to be served Wednesday with the same release conditions.