A 12-year-old boy was arrested Wednesday in a number of recent "smash and grab" burglaries on the Texas side.
Within 24 hours earlier this week, Texarkana, Texas, Police Department investigated four nighttime break-ins at cellphone retailers.
About 1 a.m. Wednesday, officers Mitchell Page and Shawn Jacobs stopped a juvenile as he rode his bike on Richmond Road, about half a mile from a cellphone store not long after a burglary was reported at the outlet. The boy was issued a citation for curfew violation, and police called his mother to pick him up.
When detectives James Hargrave and Warren Smith viewed surveillance video from the store later that day, they immediately recognized the subject as the boy whom officers had talked to overnight, according to a police report. They subsequently secured warrants for his arrest.
Detectives think the boy may be involved in other burglaries and that more charges may be filed in the coming days.