A pair of 17-year-olds allegedly stole a car that was warming up in the driveway of a Zion home before fleeing from police in Gurnee and later being arrested after a foot pursuit in Zion.
The Zion Police Department responded around 1:18 a.m. Tuesday to the 2700 block of Lowery Court in Zion for a report of a vehicle that was stolen.
Officers met with a resident who reported that two subjects had entered their Toyota sedan while it was warming up in the driveway and drove away with it, Zion Police Department Lt. Derek Zaloudek said.
Both suspects are 17-years-old.
Around an hour later, the Gurnee Police Department spotted the Toyota and attempted to pull it over, but it fled from them.
Zion police officers later received a notification from an automatic license plate reader (ALPR) that the Toyota returned to Zion just before 3 a.m., Zaloudek said.
Zion officers spotted it near 31st Street and Gideon Avenue and attempted to stop it.
The two teens abandoned the Toyota and fled on foot, Zaloudek said.
Officers chased them and eventually arrested both of them in the 2900 block of Gilboa Avenue at around 3:10 a.m.
The one who was driving the Toyota was charged with two counts of aggravated fleeing and eluding, one count of criminal damage to property, one count of operating a stolen vehicle and one count of vehicle theft.
The passenger was charged with one count of vehicle theft.
Both were transported to the Hulse Juvenile Detention Center in Vernon Hills later in the morning.