Teens Arrested After 12-Minute Search For Stolen Car In Westchester

WESTCHESTER COUNTY, NY — Twelve minutes after a car was reported stolen in Yonkers, Westchester County Police Department patrol officers recovered it, took three people into custody, seized a loaded handgun and confiscated a quantity of illegal narcotics packaged for sale.

The incident unfolded at 8:05 p.m. Wednesday when Yonkers police reported that a 2009 Acura MDX had just been stolen on Tuckahoe Road. A short time later, detectives in the Real Time Crime intelligence center at County Police headquarters determined that the stolen car was now traveling north on the Taconic State Parkway in Mount Pleasant.

A county police sergeant and two patrol officers located the vehicle at Pleasantville Road and made a traffic stop at 8:17 p.m. just south of the Route 100/Millwood exit.

A loaded .32-caliber handgun was seized along with 10 glassine envelopes of heroin, six small bundles of crack cocaine and 84 pills (Xanax, Ecstasy and Oxycodone.)

The driver, Erik Flakes, 19, of Newburgh, was charged with Criminal Possession of a Weapon 2nd Degree and Criminal Possession of Stolen Property 4th Degree, felonies; Austin Raymond, 19, of Port Jervis was charged with Criminal Possession of a Controlled Substance 3rd Degree (Intent to Sell) and Criminal Possession of Property 4th Degree, felonies.

They were held for arraignment today in New Castle Town Court.

The third person in the vehicle, a 16-year-old boy, was charged as a juvenile offender and released to his mother pending a future appearance in Westchester County Family Court.