13-Year-Old Charged In 17 Neighborhood Break-Ins

By: Associated Press | NBC4i.com
Published: June 05, 2009

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CLEVELAND -- Prosecutors have charged a 13-year-old Cleveland boy with a long list of neighborhood burglaries.

The eighth-grader is accused of breaking into 17 homes, stealing video-game consoles, laptops, flat-screen televisions and $3,040 in cash.

Authorities said he kept some of the goods for himself and sold the rest.

A judge on Thursday issued an arrest warrant for the boy, charged this week in Cuyahoga County Juvenile Court with 46 counts of burglary, theft and criminal damaging.

The spree infuriated Cleveland City Councilman Michael Polensek, whose Collinwood neighborhood was hit by the youth.

Polensek questioned why the parents of the boy allowed the behavior to continue.

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