COMPASS WEST Police arrest Youngstown teen accused of breaking into car

Charges are pending against two other men, who are 18.
AUSTINTOWN -- Police arrested a Youngstown teen early Sunday after he was accused of breaking into a car in a Compass West parking lot.
James Kennedy III, 17, of East Marion Avenue, is charged with attempted auto theft and violating curfew. Justin Kennedy, 16, of the same Youngstown address, also was charged with violating curfew as a result of the investigation into thefts from cars in the area.
Police said that charges are also pending against an 18-year-old Cleveland Street, Youngstown, man and an 18-year old Euclid Avenue, Youngstown, man linked to thefts from cars at Compass West.
Witness looked out
A Compass West man told police he looked out his window about 2 a.m. Sunday and saw James Kennedy in the man's car in the parking lot. James Kennedy ran away when the man yelled, according to police reports.
The Compass West man added that the Cleveland Street man had been hiding behind a nearby trash bin and also ran when he yelled. Police later pulled over a car on Burkey Road that contained Justin Kennedy and the Euclid Avenue man, who reports say matched descriptions of the theft suspects.
The Compass West man later said those in the car, the Euclid Avenue man and Justin Kennedy, were not those who ran from the parking lot. Police, however, searched the car and found a stereo matching the description of one that was reported stolen from another car at Compass West.
Police later found the Cleveland Street man and James Kennedy, who were then identified by the Compass West witness. Reports do not say where police found the two.