Four teens have been arrested after they tried to carjack a woman and her 13-year-old daughter in Shelton Thursday night and stole a car, according to police.
The woman and her daughter were in the lot of the Community Center on Huntington Street when a green Subaru approached as the mother got out of the car to mail a letter. A teen got out of the car, demanded the woman’s keys and pushed her to the ground, police said.
Then the woman’s 13-year-old daughter started to scream and the boy got back in the Subaru and fled, police said.
Soon after the attempted carjacking, police received a report of a vehicle burglary on Fern Drive and a green Subaru fleeing the scene, so police in surrounding towns were alerted to be on the lookout.
Trumbull police found the Subaru after it crashed on White Plains Road and took one person into custody. The three other people ran off, police said.
Police from Shelton, Trumbull, Stratford and Bridgeport took part in the search for the three people who ran and the teens were taken into custody a short time later.
Antone Grant-Chalmers, 18, of Stratford; a 16-year-old from Bridgeport and a 16-year-old and a 17-year-old from Stratford were charged with second-degree robbery, aided by another; robbery by carjacking; third-degree assault; criminal attempt, assault in the third degree; reckless endangerment in the second degree; larceny in the third degree, criminal attempt, larceny in the third degree; burglary in the third degree; criminal mischief in the third degree and conspiracy to commit, criminal mischief in the third degree, according to police.
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The three juveniles were given juvenile summonses and released to their parents. Grant-Chalmers was held on a $25,000 bond and is due in Derby Superior Court today.
Police said the Subaru the teens were in had been stolen from Bridgeport.
