EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — A 14-year-old boy was arrested after he broke into a home and stole a car last month in Horizon City, according to the Horizon City Police Department.
Police say they responded just after 1 p.m. on Tuesday, April 15, to the 14300 block of Sebastian Lane in Horizon about a reported vehicle theft.
Officers determined that the teenage boy unlawfully entered a home through the back door without the homeowner’s consent and took a set of car keys, police said.
Police said the teenage boy then fled the scene in the stolen vehicle. The vehicle was later found abandoned in a desert area and was recovered by police.
The teenage boy was taken into custody on Tuesday, April 22, and faces charges of theft of a vehicle and burglary of habitation.
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