Three people from Johnstown were charged with receiving stolen property for an incident that occurred yesterday.
Reports say that at approximately 2:20 a.m., Indiana Borough Police conducted a traffic stop on a 2010 Mazda sedan along the 00 block of North 9th St. as it was driving erratically and was suspected of DUI. The driver was not intoxicated, but it was discovered that they were driving without a license, and that the two passengers in the car with them also did not have a license, preventing the car from being driven any further.
Within minutes of concluding the initial traffic stop, the car was reported stolen to the Johnstown Police Department. Several minutes later, Indiana Borough Police, along with members of the IUP Police Department, saw the driver and passengers walking along the 00 block of South 7th St. and took them into custody.
Two of the occupants were identified as 20-year-old Andre Hinton and 18-year-old Matthew Farmer of Johnstown, and third wasn’t named as they were under the age of 18. All three were charged with Receiving Stolen Property and Hinton was charged with driving without a license.
Hinton and Farmer were lodged in Indiana County Jail while the other occupant was placed in the custody of Indiana County Juvenile Probation.
An investigation is on-going.
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