GLADSTONE, MI-- A Gladstone teen is in custody after he allegedly stole a car and later crashed it.
Gladstone Public Safety was called Tuesday around 5 p.m. to the 800 block of Delta Avenue on a report of a stolen vehicle. While investigating the incident officers learned of a car crash on the 2400 block of 3rd Avenue North. They determined both incidents involved the same vehicle.
A 16-year-old boy was taken into custody and lodged at the Bay Pines Juvenile Detention Center in Escanaba. He faces charges of unlawful taking of a motor vehicle, assaulting an officer, and malicious destruction of a police vehicle.