Fugitive Car Thieves Caught

"Police: Fugitive Kentucky teens arrested after multistate hunt"

By: Faith Karimi and Joe Sutton

Source: CNN

http://www.cnn.com/2015/01/18/justice/kentucky-teens-arrested/index.html

Dalton Hayes (18 years old) and Cheyenne Philips (13 years old) from Kentucky were arrested Sunday after being on the run for two weeks for a series of car and gun thefts. The two were found and arrested in Panama City Beach, Florida. They are suspected of stealing three cars from various states; two of the three cars had guns inside as well. They were being searched for from Kentucky to Georgia. The two  were found in a stolen Toyota Tundra, asleep. They were awoken to various cop cars and taken into custody without further incident. Officials are trying their hardest to get them sent back to Kentucky in order to make them undergo their many felony charges. Both kids were known to be “increasingly brazen and dangerous” (1). Sheriff Norman Chaffins stated, “I know Dalton, and he has a history of making bad, bad decisions. I was the school resource officer before I was elected sheriff. Dalton is known to have disciplinary and defiance issues at the high school with authority” (1). Hayes was also charged with burglary and was out on bond. Cheyenne was reported missing on January 3 from Clarkson, Kentucky. Hayes’ relatives said they last heard from him in a text on January 6. According to Officer Chaffins, the first car they stole was a truck in Clarkson. Jim McGrew, the owner of the car, says they drove the car out of his garage before speeding down the road, crashing into a fence, and fleeing on foot. The wreck cost McGrew $7,100 in damage to his truck. An hour later, they stole a Toyota Tacoma pickup truck with a firearm inside. It is a big relief to the authority to finally have been able to catch the two.