North Precinct Patrol Officer Timothy Reid pieced together important clues early Monday morning that led to the arrest of two 15-year-old runaways and their boyfriends.
Officer Reid spotted two young men behaving suspiciously near a residence in the 5500 block of Clarksville Pike. The pair fled on foot. Officer Reid knocked on the door of the home and the resident noticed several gas cans on his property had been tampered with.
A short time later, Officer Reid stopped to investigate a car with an Indiana license plate parked nearby. Two 15-year-old girls were asleep inside the 1994 Chevrolet Lumina. They told Officer Reid that they were on their way to Florida with their boyfriends who had gone to get gas. Both teens had been reported missing in Indiana.
Officer Reid soon located the boyfriends, Johnny Jones, 20, and a 17-year-old, who are suspected of attempting to steal gas earlier from outside the home. All four are from Terre Haute, Indiana.
Jones is charged with attempted theft and three counts of contributing to the delinquency of a minor. He is being held in lieu of $31,000 dollars bond.
The 17-year-old is charged in Juvenile Court with attempted theft and violating curfew. The girls were each charged with being runaways and violating curfew.
Johnny Jones
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