5 teens arrested after pursuit ends with crash in Medford – Boston News, Weather, Sports [Video]

MEDFORD, MASS. (WHDH) – Five teenagers were arrested in Medford Thursday after allegedly leading police on a chase and crashing a car into a fence in a residential neighborhood, police said. 

Police did not identify the people they arrested but said they first responded around 11 a.m. after an employee at the DICK’s Sporting Goods store in the Meadow Glen plaza reported a shoplifting incident. 

Medford police said the employee told officials the suspects fled in a vehicle toward Riverside Avenue. 

Dispatchers soon linked the vehicle’s license plate to a vehicle that was reported stolen from Belmont, according to police. 

While on their way to the DICK’s store, police said, officers spotted the allegedly stolen vehicle on Riverside Avenue and tried to conduct a traffic stop. The vehicle did not stop, according to police, and instead sped away. 

Medford police said officers continued to chase the vehicle until it crashed …