Police arrested three men and a juvenile who were suspected of breaking into cars after they led police on a high-speed chase in a stolen car that ended in a crash.
The incident began with a person reporting vehicles being broken into in the Whiteland area about 1:15 a.m. Monday. The suspects were arrested near Edinburgh after the case.
Carl D. Mays Jr., 18, Antoine D. Allen, 19, and Jayzn Martin, 18, were arrested on multiple level 6 felony charges of criminal conversion and carrying a handgun without a license after police found guns in the backseat of the vehicle. Mays Jr. was also charged with resisting law enforcement with a motor vehicle. The fourth occupant of the vehicle, a juvenile, was also charged and taken to the Johnson County Juvenile Detention Center.
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Johnson County Sheriff’s Office, Whiteland and New Whiteland police were on Poplar Court in Whiteland investigating a rash of vehicles being broken into. A person called police and thought they saw the suspects in a vehicle, according to a report from the sheriff’s office. Police noticed the dome lights of several cars were on, suggesting they had recently been entered, according to a police report.
Police found the suspect vehicle and tried to stop it, but the vehicle sped up, almost hitting the deputy’s vehicle and two officers who were out of their vehicles investigating. Police pursued the vehicle, which ran multiple stop signs and a red light on U.S. 31 as it traveled north, going into the opposite lane multiple times. The vehicle turned onto Interstate 65 and went faster than 120 miles per hour heading south. After the driver swerved to take the off ramp near the outlet mall, he struck a guard rail and landed upside down, according to the report.
Mays Jr. had the key fob for the vehicle in his pocket, along with a handgun magazine, which Mays Jr. said he knew nothing about. He said he was in the rear passenger seat and wasn’t driving, according to the report. The vehicle had been reported stolen in Marion County on June 26, the report said.
Allen said he was also in a rear passenger seat, and along with Mays Jr., denied knowing about the break-ins. He said they had just come from a party in the neighborhood. Allen also denied knowing about the handguns in the car. Police couldn’t question the juvenile without his parents and Martin didn’t answer questions, according to the report.
Mays Jr., of 55 N. Tremont St., Indianapolis, is being held at the Johnson County jail on $7,200 bond.
Allen, of 32. S. Tremont St., and Martin, of 2714 Baltimore Ave., are being held in the Johnson County jail on $4,800 bond each.
Two of the suspects had just been released from jail after being arrested by Greenwood police. Allen and Martin had been arrested on charges of theft and resisting police on June 29.
Greenwood police did not return messages seeking information about that incident.
