Associated Press
BELLEVUE — Four teen-agers who did nothing to cover their tracks in a four-week cash spending spree have been arrested in the theft of $135,000 from an Eastside home.
A police report lists page after page of purchases, ranging from DVDs, CDs and food at various malls to personal electronics, car stereos, a $700 visit to an indoor go-cart center and a $1,800 limousine ride with a $500 tip to the driver.
"They were fairly indiscriminate about what they bought," police spokeswoman Marcia Harnden said. "They didn’t hesitate at buying very expensive items with cash."
At one of their stops, Mr. Rags at Southcenter Mall in Tukwila, manager Nicol Helland recalled getting nervous when a group of teen-agers scooped up armfuls of clothes and piled them next to the cash register.
"From my experience, that usually means a stolen credit card," Helland said. "When they dropped $2,000 in cash, I asked them, ‘Did you just get a settlement? Are you famous?’
"They said they had rich parents."
More arrests are expected, about $37,000 in cash and $25,000 in property has been recovered, and police expect to return about half of the total that was stolen to the family that was burglarized, Harnden said.
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