Police say that a stolen cellphone resulted in the arrest of a Burlington Juvenile at Westland Mall.
Burlington Police arrested a 14 year old juvenile after a teacher at Aldo Leopold Middle School reported that her cell phone was stolen while she was running an afterschool program. Surveillance footage from the school implicated the 14 year old.
The teacher used a program loaded onto her phone that allowed her to track the stolen device from her home. She informed police that the stolen phone was detected by the program in the vicinity of Westland Mall.
Burlington and West Burlington police officers found the youth at Westland Mall. The juvenile admitted the crime and had the phone in his possession.
While officers were attempting to make an arrest, the juvenile apparently began resisting and knocked the glasses of the face of a Burlington Police Officer.
The juvenile is charged with theft, interference with official acts, and assaulting a peace officer. He was taken to the Lee County Juvenile Detention Center.
