"They really lost sight of how dangerous that can be," said Homer Lt. Randy Rosencrans.
Police warned the juveniles not to pretend to be masked and armed.
A Homer man reported to police late last Friday that someone stole a 1985 Ford Tempo from behind his Bonanza Avenue house. According to a criminal complaint, the man told police he suspected his granddaughter's boyfriend, Christopher Lusardi, 22, had taken the keys to the car from the man's home and drove off with the Ford.
Alaska State Trooper Arthur Dunn found the missing Ford that evening being driven by an Anchor Point man. The man told Dunn he knew Lusardi from work and Lusardi pulled up in a blue Ford Tempo at the Anchor Point store. Lusardi asked to borrow the man's cell phone. The man went into the store, and when he came out, Lusardi was gone and had left the Ford running in the parking lot. The man was driving around looking for Lusardi when Dunn pulled him over.
Homer Police got a warrant for Lusardi and charged him with first-degree burglary and first-degree vehicle theft, both felonies; and giving false information for allegedly lying to police about his name, driving without an operator's license and violating the conditions of release. Troopers arrested Lusardi on May 23.
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