CENTERVILLE — Police arrested three men accused of trying to break into cars in one neighborhood.
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Around 3 a.m. Friday, people started calling the Centerville police.
“There’s at least one man out here going car to car, with a flashlight with a hoodie on,” a 911 caller said.
People at Cornerstone Apartments saw more than one person acting strangely around their cars.
“It looks like he’s just looking for unlocked vehicles and he’s going through them,” a 911 caller said.
Another person called to describe the car the group was driving.
Police later said the car was stolen from somewhere else, and the suspects drove it to the apartments.
The group allegedly smashed some windows and drove around the area shining flashlights into cars.
Police said the suspects had keyfobs and a device that would change keyfob signals.
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Centerville Officer Ryan Turner said West Carrollton and Sugarcreek Township Police Officers moved in to help.
“He took off running after the other two subjects, after another tow subjects, after a little bit of a foot chase, was able to grab one of the other suspects,” Turner said.
Officers put a drone into the air.
Police said after finding the two suspects, they could not find the third.
That’s when they used the drone’s infrared technology and spotted him.
Two of the three were adults and are in the Greene County Jail.
The third is in Greene County’s juvenile detention center.
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