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Teen Arrested for Alleged Car Break-Ins
A Galesburg teenager is out of jail on bond after being arrested for several suspected break-ins to cars over the past several days.

Galesburg Police reports indicate officers arrested 18-year old Angelo Nieft early Thursday.

Police were called to Mid-State Manufacturing just after midnight after an employee told officers he saw someone dressed in dark clothing and with a backpack trying to break into a vehicle.

The employee says he got closer to the car and heard the man later identified as Nieft yell at another car to go away, which it did, while he fled on foot. Officers fond him not too long after that.

Nieft told officers he'd spent the last two nights breaking into cars at Mid-State Manufacturing, and that he didn't need to use any of the tools that were in the backpack he was carrying.

Police, though, say other vehicles were broken into the last several nights on Phillips and Arnold Streets, as well as Outrigger Road and Bandy Avenue.

While officers arrested Nieft on five-counts of burglary to a motor vehicle and one-count of possession of burglary tools, he was formally charged with one-count of burglary and one-count of possession of burglary tools.

Records indicate Nieft posted the required ten percent of a $20,000 dollar bond, and will be back in court Wednesday morning for his first court appearance with a public defender.
07 23 11 by Newsroom
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