At approximately 1:30 AM on Thursday, April 23, an Oakland County Sheriffs deputy on routine patrol near Walton and Rochdale in the city of Rochester Hills when he came upon two males who had just committed an armed robbery.  Two Pontiac residents, age 16 and 17, were ultimately taken into custody.

The deputy was eastbound on Walton in the City of Rochester Hills when he observed a 1997 Dodge Intrepid driving in a reckless manner as it turned onto westbound Walton from Arizona Street, almost striking another vehicle, and continuing at a high rate of speed.  The deputy turned around to follow the fleeing vehicle westbound on Walton.

When the deputy began to close the distance, he activated his lights and siren, but the Intrepid accelerated to over 100 miles per hour.  The Intrepid continued approximately 3 miles to Squirrel Road in the city of Auburn Hills where it spun out and crashed in a construction zone and the two occupants fled the scene on foot.

Additional deputies from the Sheriffs Office and Auburn Hills Police Department searched the area for the suspects and found each in the parking lot of an apartment complex within a mile from the crash site.  The 17 year old was found in a trash dumpster and the 16 year old was found hiding under a car.

Shortly before midnight the previous day, the two had stolen the Intrepid from an apartment complex in Pontiac.  They drove to the White Castle restaurant at Featherstone Road and Martin Luther King Blvd in Pontiac where they placed an order and were waiting in line at the drive thru.  They became impatient with the long wait for the hamburgers and instead of paying for their order; they decided to follow the vehicle ahead of them to Arizona Street in Rochester Hills with the intent of stealing the victims White Castle hamburgers.

When that vehicle pulled into a residential driveway, the two suspects approached the vehicle.  The 17 year old went to the drivers side where he struck the driver with a hammer, pulled him out of the car, forced him to the ground, ordered him to empty his pockets, and took his wallet.

The 16 year old went to the passenger side, pulled the passenger out of the car, and told him to empty his pockets and get everything out.  He threw his wallet, cell phone and Sony Play Station to the ground.  The two suspects took these items along with the bag of hamburgers and fled in the stolen car.  The two Rochester Hillss residents both age 21 were not physically injured in this robbery.

All property stolen in the armed robbery was recovered by Deputies expect the wallet of one of the victims. The hammer was also recovered. The White Castle hamburgers, 16 in total and one chicken sandwich, were recovered, still in the bag inside the stolen car.

The two suspects both have juvenile criminal records; the 16 year old for Assault on a Police Officer and the 17 year old for Home Invasion. They are being held in custody pending review by the Prosecutors Office for issuance of warrants and are expected to be arraigned tomorrow.

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