Occurred on 2/28/12, 11:11 p.m.  Evading Arrest   Ayers and Cuiper   1202280137

An Officer spotted two teenage boys walking down an alley behind a shopping plaza that was closed for business.  When the officer turned his patrol car around to talk to the two, both teens suddenly disappeared around the corner and hid behind the dumpsters. When the officer parked his patrol car and began walking towards the two, one of the boys bolted, jumped a fence and fled eastbound.  The officer detained the sixteen year old who remained while officers searched for the fleeing suspect.

Responding officers found the 16-year-old boy who fled hiding in the back yard of a home in the 4200 block of Carlton Street.  Both teens were placed in police custody and booked at the Nueces County Juvenile Justice Center for Probation Violation.  The juvenile who fled was additionally charged with Evading Arrest.