For the second time in eight days, a 19-year-old faces felony charges for his involvement in a variety of crimes related to car thefts, according to Madison police.
He was arrested last week after blowing a red light and crashing a stolen car. He and three other passengers were chased down by police, who found a number of stolen items in the car, including a credit card belonging to a man whose home was recently burgled.
More charges were added to the teenager’s case Thursday when police identified him as the suspect caught on surveillance video in late January. The video shows him attempting to break into a house by using keys taken in a burglary at the same house two weeks earlier. In the first burglary, the keys were stolen along with a car. When the suspect returned, he found the owners of the house had changed the locks, preventing him from breaking in again.
Police said they do not have enough evidence to charge the suspect in the initial burglary and are trying to identify the other man caught on the surveillance video.
