Police have charged two teenagers with stealing from flood-damaged homes in Conoy Township, police said.

Jamie J. Foulkrod, 18, and a 17-year-old boy, both of Middletown, struck two homes and a storage building along Prescott Road in November, Susquehanna Regional police Lt. Stephen Englert said.

The homes are along the Susquehanna River, next to Canal Park; both sustained flood damage in September.

The homes were used only part time, he said.

The two teens stole items during numerous trips to the homes between Nov. 9 and 18, Englert said.

The teens took a green Bolens riding mower, a steel furnace, a kitchen sink, a refrigerator, a cast-iron stove, a hydraulic jack, metal plates and various tools, he said. They even dismantled aluminum siding from one home and took it, too.

They sold many of the items as scrap metal, Englert said. None of the items was recovered.

The value of the stolen property was estimated at $6,000, he said.

Witnesses said they saw the siding being dismantled but did not expect any wrongdoing since the properties had been damaged by flooding.

Susquehanna Regional police in December released to other police departments a surveillance photo of a pickup truck they said was involved in the thefts, Englert said.

Thanks to the alert, Middletown Borough police located the vehicle in a park there and notified Susquehanna Regional police.

"That's what made the case," he said.

Police on Friday charged both Foulkrod and the 17-year-old with two counts of theft, two counts of trespassing and criminal conspiracy, police said.

Both were released from custody after they cooperated with police and admitted to committing the thefts, Englert said.

Foulkrod will be arraigned before District Judge Albert Scott.

The 17-year-old is being referred to county juvenile authorities, Englert said.

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