A minor has been arrested after hiding out from police in an occupied home following a stolen car crash in Orange on Tuesday.
Orange police said they were notified that a car stolen out of Derby went through a traffic light on Derby Avenue and collided with another car.
The driver of the car that was hit suffered non-life-threatening injuries, according to police.
Authorities said two people, including at least one minor, hopped out of the car and took off into the woods. Police searched for the suspects for four hours and Amity Middle School and the Southern Connecticut Hebrew Academy were both placed on lockdown during the search.
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Orange police said they learned that one of the suspects, a 16-year-old from New Haven, had broken into two single-family homes in town while trying to hide from officers. They were found behind a couch in one of the homes and were taken into custody after running back outside, police said.
The teen had a monitoring bracelet on his ankle, police said.
He was charged with larceny of a motor vehicle, interfering with police, credit card theft, burglary in the third degree and burglary in the second degree and brought to the Bridgeport juvenile detention facility. The second suspect was never located and remains at large but we have several solid leads on his
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The police department is still looking for the other suspect. No additional information was immediately available.
