YOUNGSTOWN Police arrest 4 youths in home burglaries

Four boys were arrested in two separate burglaries.
YOUNGSTOWN -- City police arrested an 11-year-old boy they watched crawl out the basement window of a North Side home he was burglarizing with two other boys.
Police were called to the New York Avenue home at about 6:15 p.m. Wednesday by a neighbor who had seen three boys looking into windows.
When police arrived, a 14-year-old boy was serving as lookout in the yard. Witnesses said a 12-year-old boy who also was in the yard had crawled inside the window with the 11-year-old, who is accused of breaking through the window with a BB gun, police reports show. The 80-year-old resident of the home said nothing was stolen.
The 11-year-old, an East Middle School fifth-grader, and the 12-year-old, a Hayes Middle School fifth-grader, were charged with burglary. The older boy, a Hayes Middle School seventh-grader, was charged with complicity to burglary. All three were taken to the Mahoning County Juvenile Justice Center.
Another case: Also on Wednesday, police arrested a 16-year-old boy they found hiding in a home adjacent to one they say he had broken into in his East Side neighborhood.
Officers called to the Kimmel Street address at about 9:20 p.m. saw the teen run through the back yard. A police dog tracked the boy to a Scioto Avenue home. During the tracking, officers found a stolen boombox and pool stick and the teen's shoe, stuck in mud.
Once inside the Scioto home, they found the muddy teen, missing a shoe and wearing a wet sock. The boy, an 11th-grader at Choffin Career Center, was charged with burglary and taken to the Mahoning County Juvenile Justice Center.
A computer was also stolen from the home.