Two teenage girls who escaped from a group home in Derry Township last week are being held in Westmoreland County’s juvenile detention center after their arrests for allegedly breaking into multiple cars in an apartment complex, state police reported.
The girls, ages 14- and 16-years-old, escaped late Monday from Adelphoi Village Marker House for adjudicated juveniles on Marcia Street, Trooper John Robertson reported.
Robertson said the girls were arrested Tuesday after breaking into multiple vehicles in the Briarwood apartment complex in Unity Township and fleeing with multiple items valued at more than $150.
The girls are being charged in juvenile court with multiple criminal counts, including theft from a motor vehicle.
Adelphoi Village, based in Latrobe, operates three group homes in the Latrobe area and another in Connellsville for youths who are court-adjudicated or placed there by the children and youth services agencies in their home counties.
