Three teenagers in Menlo Park, California, are facing multiple charges after they were accused of stealing a vehicle. Local police, instead of engaging in a high-speed chase, decided to use a GPS tracker to stop the teens, one of whom is a 13-year-old.
As reported by KTVU, the incident occurred on Saturday, May 23. At the time, officers with the Menlo Park Police Department (MPPD) spotted a vehicle that had been reported stolen.
Officers then attempted to conduct a felony traffic stop. However, the driver of the vehicle, one of the aforementioned teenagers, allegedly fled “at a high rate of speed,” the MPPD detailed in a press release, sharing footage of the fleeing vehicle…