Four face burglary charges

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Updated: March 3, 2012 11:38AM

JOLIET — Four teens were arrested after three break-ins Tuesday and may be linked to several others, police said.

police were called to a burglary around 11:50 a.m. Tuesday in the 2700 block of Richmond Street. Suspects were seen leaving in a white Oldsmobile Alero.

Officer Dennis Carroll spotted a white Alero and followed it to a residence on North Hickory Street in Crest Hill.

Police stopped the vehicle around 12:40 p.m. Inside, they allegedly found a safe with paperwork from a residence in the 200 block of Union Street.

The back door to the Union Street home had been forced open, and a resident reported as stolen the safe, a computer and jewelry found in the Alero.

Jewelry, an iPod, a coin bank and 19 video games found in the car reportedly were identified as property stolen from the house on Richmond Street. A search warrant led to a TV, three computers, stereo speakers, Nintendo and Xbox video game systems, paintball guns, several DVDs and video games inside the Hickory Street house, police said.

Jose L. Aguirre, 17, of 803 Kelly Ave.; Victor G. Ramirez, 17, of 609 Third Ave.; Nestor U. Guzman, 17, of 230 Union St., and a 16-year-old boy were arrested on charges of residential burglary.

Officers also reportedly found property taken during a Jan. 11 break-in in the 1500 block of Vernon Avenue and taken Tuesday in the 1100 block of Holmes Avenue.