Authorities said the teenagers might have pedaled to rural Fauquier County on Capital Bikeshare bikes before attempting to break into a convenience store.
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When sheriff’s deputies in Fauquier County, Va., encountered two teenagers Sunday night outside Dumfries Market, it was clear what the youths were up to: Authorities said the boys, 15 and 16, were standing in front of the smashed glass doors of the closed convenience store, a metal pipe on the ground at their feet.But how did they get there? Did the two really ride bicycles all the way from D.C.
“We’re still trying to figure that out,” Jeffrey Long, a spokesman for the Fauquier sheriff’s office, said Wednesday. Yet judging from the twoThe incident occurred shortly before 8:30 p.m. at the market and gas station, in the 4200 block of Dumfries Road, Long said. The store was closed but an employee was inside cleaning up. When the glass doors shattered, the employee, looking at a security-video screen, could see two youths trying to get in.
“There are some indicators” that the boys rode quite a long distance before their arrests, Long said. He said Virginia State Police received a report early Sunday afternoon “of two males riding bikes” beside the westbound lanes of Interstate 66 in Fairfax County. Also, one of the boys was reported missing, an apparent runaway, two days before the burglary attempt.“We’re still waiting to hear from Capital Bikeshare on where the bikes came from,” Long said. “We just don’t know for sure.
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