NEWBURY — Two youths broke into Triton High School yesterday, stealing cash from the cafeteria and egging the walls before leaving to find that police had taken their car keys, according to police reports.
About 5:30 a.m., Sgt. Jay Routhier and officer Joseph Anderson responded to a burglar alarm at the school and a door open, according to Lt. John Lucey. They also found a pickup truck with the keys in the ignition in the upper parking lot near the woods. Sgt. Routhier pocketed the keys.
When police searched the school, they discovered that a cash box and other property were missing from the cafeteria, an office and a freezer had been broken into, and the cafeteria's walls had been egged. Because police were unsure if the burglars were still in the building, they called for Rowley and state police officers to help secure the area, and the Amesbury K-9 unit to assist in a search. But the youths made a search unnecessary, Lucey said.
"They came out of the woods ... and were sitting in the truck as the state police drove up," Lucey said. "Sgt. Routhier taking the keys from the truck was huge; they were searching their pockets ... all they had were the keys they'd stolen from the school."
Police arrested Kenneth Eaton, 18, of 53 Beach Road, Salisbury, and Mitchell Perry, 19, of 11 West Pine St., Plaistow, N.H., and charged them with breaking and entering for a felony, larceny, larceny of a building, possession of burglarious tools (unauthorized master keys) and malicious destruction of property.
Eaton and Perry were arraigned yesterday in Newburyport District Court.
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