Stolen clothes land two women in jail

OREM — Two women were arrested after police say they went on a "back-to-school" theft spree involvingmore than $1,400 of merchandise from two stores in University Mall.

Police received a report Tuesday evening of an auto burglary, and they quickly located the stolen white and silver Lexus as it entered the freeway and pulled it over, according to a police affidavit filed in 4th District Court.

Inside, officers found a man who allegedly admitted to two auto burglaries, as well as having marijuana in a drug free zone.

The 22-year-old female driver admitted that she and a 20-year-old female passenger had stolen more than 80 new items of clothing filling the car, police said.

The clothes were worth roughly $1,456 and were from The Gap and The Children's Place stores in the mall, according to the affidavit.

Inside the driver's purse, police found pliers, a screwdriver and wire cutters, and officers later learned the women had damaged several theft-detection devices from both stores, according to the affidavit.

Both women were booked into the Utah County Jail for investigation of retail theft, possession of stolen property and damage of a theft-detection device.

The driver was booked for possession of burglary tools, and a passenger was booked for possession of drug paraphernalia.

— Sara Israelsen-Hartley