CLEVELAND, Ohio — Ten teenagers were arrested Sunday, Oct. 12, following a coordinated investigation by the Cleveland Division of Police into a string of vehicle break-ins and thefts that spanned multiple districts throughout the city. The arrests were made after police responded to a report of 24 vehicles broken into at the Hilton Garden Inn on Carnegie Avenue, with additional break-ins discovered near East 14th Street and Euclid Avenue and as far as East 120th Street and Mayfield Road.
“It is both deeply troubling and unacceptable to see teenagers engaging in such audacious and disruptive criminal behavior,” said Chief Todd in a statement issued Monday. “What the public can take confidence in is this: arrests have been made, and those responsible will face the full weight of the justice system.”
The investigation, initiated by Third District detectives and supported by intelligence from the Second District, revealed that suspects were using at least two stolen vehicles to carry out the crimes. By early afternoon, detectives, aided by the Real Time Crime Center and FLOCK license plate readers, tracked the movement of the stolen vehicles across Cleveland…