Young car thieves' run comes to crashing end

Young car thieves' run comes to crashing end

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Story Published: Feb 27, 2008 at 12:46 PM PDT

Story Updated: Feb 27, 2008 at 7:22 PM PDT

By KOMO Staff

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PARKLAND, Wash. -- A group of teenagers in a stolen car crashed into a home in Pierce County on Wednesday while trying to get away from pursuing deputies.

Sheriff spokesman Ed Troyer said the driver crashed the gold Cadillac sedan through the wall of a home in the 1010 block of Park Avenue South about 11:15 a.m.

No one was in the house at the time and the two boys and one girl in the car were not seriously injured.

Troyer said the 17 year old and the two 16 year olds who crashed the Cadillac also stole a Dodge Durango SUV earlier in the day and crashed it near the intersection of 72nd Street and Trafton Street in Tacoma. Teens took out a 1,000-pound telephone pole in that crash.

"I just heard one loud smack, that's it," said witness David Knigge. "He had to be going pretty fast because came around the corner and had to lose control to hit it (the pole)."

The juveniles then stole a Cadillac from an area near the crash, Troyer said, and drove off, only to crash it into Gary Yankey's house minutes later.

"Unreal. I mean, it is unreal. The danger they put everybody else in only for themselves," Yankey said. "You've got kids in a stolen vehicle that went through someone else's things and I have to obviously deal with the repercussions of that."

Yankey was not home at the time.

"I live alone with my dog and he wasn't home either; he was at the groomer's, so just very fortunate," he said.

Following the crash, deputies captured one teen who took off running down the street. They found the remaining two hiding behind the house. All three have been taken into custody.

 

 

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