CRIME Teens try to take neighbor's car

The four boys bailed out on East Myrtle Avenue and scattered.
YOUNGSTOWN -- Carjacking Rule No. 1: Don't take your neighbor's car -- he knows who you are and where you live.
A 13-year-old Alameda Avenue boy learned the reason for this rule the hard way, as did three of his friends.
Their doomed escapade began on Alameda around 2 a.m. Sunday when the owner of a 1992 Dodge Shadow arrived home.
His neighbor, the 13-year-old, came over, with his three friends -- 14, 14, and 13 -- in tow. They had good news. They knew where the man's stolen cell phone could be found.
For a ride
The 34-year-old victim and the boys climbed in the Dodge Shadow and off they went to a parking lot at Hillman Street and Marion Avenue. The house where the cell phone was supposed to be was dark.
As they sat and waited (it's not clear for what), the 205-pound neighbor boy told the driver to give up the car or get beaten.
The boy also warned that the front-seat passenger, Troy (which turned out not to be his real name), had a gun. Troy held his hand in his coat pocket, as if holding a gun.
Troy told the Dodge owner to give up the car or be "taken out!"
Troy then grabbed the car's key out of the ignition and ran west on Marion, followed by the car's owner. Troy doubled back, jumped in the Dodge and off it went.
Brief chase
After police broadcast a description of the stolen vehicle, officers spotted it stopped at a red light on eastbound Williamson Avenue at South Avenue.
The driver, seeing cops, sped off north on South Avenue, then made a few quick turns. Once on Franklin Avenue near Myrtle, the four boys bailed out and scattered.
One, a 14-year-old Florencedale Avenue boy, was caught on Myrtle near Gibson Street. Another, the driver, a 13-year-old Upland Avenue boy, was nabbed on South Avenue.
Just then, a woman in the 1100 block of Franklin Avenue reported someone in her garage. Inside the garage police found the 13-year-old Alameda Avenue boy.
While waiting for the Boardman police search dog, officers found the fourth suspect, a 14-year-old Delaware Avenue boy, hiding under a car parked in a driveway in the 1000 block of Franklin.
The owner of the Dodge was brought to where the suspects were gathered and positively identified them.
The two teens who threatened bodily harm were charged with robbery. The other two were charged with complicity to robbery.