Teen boys arrested following chase

HARLINGEN - Two teenage boys were arrested by Harlingen police Thursday after authorities said they eluded Primera police earlier in the day.

Primera police responded to a woman's call about unwanted teens at her home with her son, Primera Police Lt. Mario Leal said.

Leal said that when police arrived at the home, on Burns Road in Primera, the three teens ran into a nearby field. Police chased them into the field until the teens ran to a Ford Taurus that was parked at the Burns Road home and sped away.

Primera police called off the chase after the boys left the scene, Leal said.

A Harlingen patrol officer with radar on Business 83 saw the vehicle, which he clocked at about 100 mph, and stopped it near the Posada Del Sol mobile home park on Palm Court Drive, Leal said.

Harlingen Police spokesman Dave Osborne said police took the 15-year-old driver into custody but three others in the vehicle ran off.

The Ford Taurus was registered to the mother of a friend of the teen driver, who was persuaded not to press charges, Leal said.

The driver was charged with evading arrest in a motor vehicle, a state jail felony, and was being detained at the Darrell Hester Juvenile Detention Center in San Benito on Thursday evening.

Another teen who ran from the vehicle turned himself in after talking to his probation officer, Leal said. The boy, 16, was charged with a Class B misdemeanor of evading arrest and later released to his mother.

A girl who ran from the scene is suspected to be 14 or 15 years old and had not been found as of Thursday evening.

Posada del Sol park resident Mike Howden said the Ford Taurus was traveling about 40 mph when it made a sharp turn onto the narrow road that leads into his park off Palm Court Drive.

"I saw a gray car flying across the corner," Howden said. "I heard the tires squeal and I saw the doors open and (the teens) ran to the creek," Howden said, referring to the Arroyo Colorado.

Park residents were concerned that the teenagers were hiding near their homes.

"I hope you catch those devils," resident Gerald Bloomquist told police. "I don't want them hanging around my place."