PIKE CREEK, DELAWARE (7/29/2017) Five suspects have been arrested in connection with two night-time burglaries in the Meadowood community off Capitol Trail (Route 2), the New Castle County police said this morning.
Detectives began investigating the burglaries Tuesday and identified 19-year-old Hunter Foltz as a suspect.
Police said they found Foltz in his home in the 100 block of Spruce Glen Drive in Meadowood, along with 18-year-old Edwin Santiago-Rodriguez and a 16-year-old boy. They were taken into custody without incident.
Police said detectives found evidence in the home implicating two other boys, a 16-year-old and a 13-year-old from the Timber Creek neighborhood.
Police said they searched their home in the first block of N. Wynwyd Drive, finding additional evidence, and took the pair into custody.
Foltz was charged with two counts of second-degree burglary, felony theft, obtaining a controlled substance by theft and criminal mischief. He was being held at Young Correctional Institution in Wilmington after failing to post $20,000 cash-only bail.
Santiago-Rodriguez, of the 1400 block of Clayton Road near Wilmington, was charged with two counts of second-degree burglary, felony theft, obtaining a controlled substance by theft, second-degree conspiracy and criminal mischief. He was being held at Young Correctional after failing to post $21,000 cash-only bail.
The three juveniles were charged with burglary and related offenses. All three were released to their families.
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