Two teenage boys arrested after crashing stolen car into Chicago convenience store
CHICAGO (CBS) -- Two teenagers were arrested after a stolen car plowed into a convenience store early Sunday in the Englewood neighborhood.
A police source said a pursuit of that stolen car was underway before the boys – both 15 years old – crashed their car into the front of a store near 75th Street and Vincennes Avenue just after midnight.
The entire car ended up inside Aladdin's Food convenience store. Both Chicago police officers and Illinois State Police were seen outside the store.
The crash left debris all over the street, and a streetlight was knocked down. Police led the two boys away in handcuffs after the crash.
Anthony Washington said he lives a block away from the convenience store, and came out before police arrived.
"I just heard a big boom," he said. "I left. I was scared, because I thought somebody was really, really hurt. So I panicked and I left, but I came back down here like about 12:30. I guess the ambulance had got the people who was in there or they got caught by the police."
Hours after the crash, the car remained inside the store. An officer on scene said the car cannot be removed until a person from the city's Department of Buildings can come out and inspect.
Police dispatch radio transmissions indicated that there appeared to be structural damage to the building.
One teen was charged with felony possession of a stolen vehicle. The other was charged with misdemeanor criminal trespass to a vehicle.
Neither of the teens was injured, but they were taken to a local hospital as a precaution.