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OGDEN -- Four teenagers are in trouble after Ogden police say they shot out dozens of windows with BB guns.
Ogden police Lt. Tony Fox said police started getting phone calls on Friday and Saturday from people discovering their car windows had been shot out. Police eventually caught up with the teens when a business alarm went off and police spotted the teens inside a nearby vehicle.
They just went from the north end of the city to the south end of the city shooting these guns at anything they wanted to.
–Lt. Tony Fox
"They just went from the north end of the city to the south end of the city shooting these guns at anything they wanted to. Mostly they shot windows out of cars. They hit a few businesses and one home that I know of," said Fox.
Three teens were in the car when police stopped it, and after questioning them a fourth also was arrested. So far police know of 25 windows that are damaged.
"I'm sure that these four individuals are responsible for every one of these windows that were shot out," said Fox.
One of the teens had taken the car they were in from a family member without the owner knowing about it.
Fox said the BB guns they were using had been shoplifted from Walmart.
The teens were arrested for vandalism and causing a catastrophe because of the amount of damage, although the cost of the damage hasn't yet been determined.
Two of the teens are known gang members, according to police.
Anyone else who discovered a window shot out with a BB gun over the weekend is asked to call Ogden police and fill out a report.
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