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Two area 16-year-olds were arrested last week for 16 felonies against businesses and homes this year.

Before their arrests and charges, the Bonner Springs girl and the Edwardsville boy were being questioned by Bonner Springs Police detectives Vickie Fogarty and Ron Crouss for an unrelated, and it turned out, unfounded, report of indecent exposure.

The suspects were arrested Thursday and Friday and are awaiting detention hearings in the Wyandotte County Juvenile Detention facility. The teens, whose identities have not been released, are charged with burglaries of area businesses, the school district office and two residences.

The first burglary they’re charged with was in Miller Pharmacy, 207 Oak St., on Feb. 7, and again on June 25. About $30,500 worth of Oxycontin — about 10,000 pills — and a “small amount of cash” was taken Feb. 7, and about $1,500 worth of hydrocodone, another narcotic, was taken the second time.

Schubert said he didn’t want to speculate whether the burglars were selling the drugs or not, but the amount taken was “a lot.”

Vesta Lee Lumber, 2300 S. 1138th St., was the scene of several burglaries the suspects are charged with.

The lumber business was burglarized Feb. 27, March 27, June 20, July 17, Aug. 8 and Aug. 28, with the thieves making off with a total of about $200 combined.

The money taken in each Vesta Lee burglary was “just change” left in the cash register drawer, Schubert said, which makes the second and later burglaries of Vesta Lee puzzling.

The central office of the Bonner Springs-Edwardsville School District, 2200 S. 138th St., was burglarized June 15, and about $5,000 worth of tools and a pickup truck were stolen from the maintenance shed. The pickup was never recovered, Schubert said.

On March 4 Custom Limousine, 11531 Kaw Drive, was burglarized, with about $14,000 in damage and stolen goods, including flat-screen television sets from limousines.

In another Custom burglary on April 28 thieves stole a pickup truck, a DVD player and scrap materials such as batteries, radiators and alternators, amounting to estimated loss of $5,300. The pickup truck was recovered later that day.

Creative Landscaping, 11565 Kaw Drive, was burglarized March 26, with a pickup truck and tools valued at $13,100 stolen. The truck was recovered in Kansas City, Kan.

On Aug. 12, tools and a truck estimated at $9,300 were stolen from a residential home on the 800 block of South 34th Street in Kansas City, Kan., and another home in the 1000 block of 134th Street in Bonner Springs had about $2,000 worth of tools stolen.

The tools from the second home and the truck from the first were recovered.

Lastly the two teens are charged with arson in the Aug. 25 fire at Chad Franklin Suzuki, 6801 State Ave., which resulted in estimated damages of more than $150,000 to 10 vehicles.

Schubert said the charges were the result of “some very good police work by my detectives,” Fogarty and Crouss.

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