15-year-old charges for stealing guns from police cruiser

By Jennifer Cruz

The aftermath of the March 26 burglary. (Photo: Port St. Lucie Police Department)
Officers with the Port St. Lucie Police Department arrested a 15-year-old Florida boy Tuesday who is accused of breaking into a police car earlier this year and stealing a number of items, including multiple firearms.
The teen, whose name was not released, is facing charges for armed burglary to a vehicle, grand theft, grand theft of a firearm, felony criminal mischief, unlawful possession of a firearm by a minor, resisting officers without violence, and violation of Probation, according to the Port St. Lucie Police Department.
Authorities launched an investigation after receiving calls of shots fired in a residential area of Port St. Lucie on March 26 around 2 a.m. Responding officers soon located a patrol vehicle from the Fort Pierce Police Department parked in the driveway of a nearby home. The doors of the patrol car were opened and it appeared the vehicle had been targeted for a burglary.
Officers found the front driver’s side window of the patrol car broken and the inside of the vehicle was ransacked. Further investigation revealed that a laptop computer and tint meter had been stolen from the vehicle, along with a gun rack

Source: Guns.com