Six teens arrested for alleged stolen car crime series, with one chase ending up on the O-Bahn
This is not your usual case of driver error, SA Police say, after a dramatic series of events.
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Police have arrested six teenagers for allegedly stealing three cars, with one car ending up on the O-Bahn bus trucks on Wednesday after a countryside joy ride.
Two Port Augusta teens aged 14 and 19, were tracked by police, including Polair, after they allegedly stole a red 2016 Ford Mustang from a Rosslyn Park home at 6am on Wednesday.
Police said the Mustang was later spotted travelling south out of Bute on the Yorke Peninsula, about 11.15am, before heading east on the Copper Coast Highway through to Port Wakefield.
Patrols cordoned the area off and awaited Polair to commence tracking the vehicle from the air.
The Mustang was tracked returning to Adelaide through Two Wells and Virginia, and back into the northern suburbs, before it visited an Elizabeth North address, where four other teens were arrested.
Police allege that three teens attempted to flee the property, but were quickly apprehended, before another boy was located inside the house, hiding in the roof space.
The four teens arrested at Elizabeth North are aged 14, 14, 16 and 16.
They have been charged with illegal use.Two stolen cars yet to be found include a grey 2018 Nissan Qashqai sedan, registration S195BYZ, and a black 2010 Toyota Landcruiser, S169AGL, allegedly taken by the teens arrested at Elizabeth North.
After the four teens were arrested, police followed the Mustang from the address, before they drove onto the O-Bahn bus track.
About 12.45pm the Mustang drove onto the O-Bahn track at Tea Tree Plaza and travelled south for about 2km before becoming stuck near Welloch Street, Modbury.
Police allege two people ran from the car and over fences of nearby houses but were quickly arrested by patrols.
The O-Bahn track was reopened on Wednesday afternoon.
Police say investigations are still being conducted into the crime series by the Youth and Street Gang Task Force, and further charges may be laid.
Today’s car getting stuck on the O-Bahn tracks is no joke, unlike yesterday’s April fools day gag, where Mix102.3 cheekily photoshopped their van on the tracks.
Neither has it been the first time. Taking a wrong turn onto the O-Bahn is as peculiarly South Australian as smiley fritz and Stobie poles.
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