ST. LOUIS — Three teens were taken into custody early Sunday morning after they crashed a car they had taken in a carjacking hours earlier, police said.
The carjacking happened at Athlone Avenue and Penrose Street in the O'Fallon neighborhood at around 11:30 p.m. Saturday.
The car fled from police and crashed at Interstate 70 and Union Boulevard at around 2:30 a.m., the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department said. Two 18-year-olds and a 16-year-old were taken into custody. Police seized two guns and narcotics at the scene.
No further information on the circumstances of the carjacking has been released.
Police are also investigating a carjacking that occurred in the Hyde Park neighborhood Monday night. A man told police he was stopped at a stop sign at around 6:15 p.m. when a man pulled up next to him, said he had a gun and made the victim give up his shoes, jewelry and car.
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