/ 4 November 2008

Aussie teen arrested breaking into police station

The long arm of the law didn’t have to reach too far to arrest one Australian teenager, who was caught breaking into a police station in the early hours of Monday.

Officers working in the back of the police station in a suburb of the southern city of Adelaide heard the front door glass being smashed and found the 16-year old in the front hall.

”A teenage boy has discovered the quickest way of getting arrested is to break into a police station,” South Australia state police said in a statement on its website.

About Aus$2 000 of damage was caused and the boy was denied bail, the statement said.

A police spokesperson added the youth did not give a reason for his actions, and may have had ”a bit too much to drink”. — Reuters