Arizona: Two 16-year-olds arrested for assault, kidnapping and murder

• Arizona authorities arrested two teenagers after unleashing a crime spree.
• The two 16-year-olds will be charged as adults in Arizona.
• The two teens’ list of crimes in Arizona includes assault, kidnapping and murder.

Just reading it leaves more than one frozen.

Authorities arrested two 16-year-old teens in a wave of violence that includes assault, kidnapping and murder in the state Arizona.

Authorities identified the suspects as Corbin Myles McNeil and James Faser Quintero, who at 16 were already ‘sowing’ terror in Arizona.

The local newspaper AZ Family reported this week that a series of crimes that left several victims throughout the Valley (Valley) for two months was linked to the suspected teenagers and now the police accuse them of even murdering two people.

But nevertheless, ABC 15 indicated that the crimes of the young people had begun in July.

AZ Family pointed out that McNeil and Quintero are 16 years old, but the former was 15 when the crime wave began in this area of ​​Arizona.

The long list of charges the two friends face, detailed ABC 15 and AZ Family, includes kidnapping, aggravated assault, armed robbery, carjacking and murder.

According to the AZ Family report, Tempe Police Department Detective Greg Bacon said «these are very violent crimes for strangers.»

Bacon said that the crime wave of the two teenagers would have started in Phoenix, where an aggravated assault was recorded.

The youths were near a Circle K store where they shot a random person, and the event was recorded on some surveillance cameras, Bacon told AZ Family.

Then, the police authorities asked the departments throughout the Valley to be attentive to the suspects who were beginning to be wanted.

According to AZ Family, Bacon added: “A few days later, we had a homicide in Tempe. While our detectives were going through the information on that homicide, they discovered that there was a photo, and one of our detectives looked at that photo and said, ‘hey, this guy looks like one of the guys involved in the Phoenix shooting.’

Detectives were then able to confirm McNeil and Quintero’s involvement in the Circle K homicide and shooting.

After an arduous investigation, authorities arrested the two teenagers in Arizona and, according to AZ Family, in court records sealed in October they are accused of several other crimes, including the murder of another person in Chandler.

Although several victims are listed in the records, the documents show that the victims of the killings were Matthew Meisner and Amber Joy Patton, the newspaper said.

Bacon said the arrests may serve to ease some of the grief of the victims’ families.

“Hopefully, (we hope) to help some families in the healing process now, as they have lost loved ones. These were strange victims. None of these individuals knew them. They were heinous and extremely violent crimes, and the community can be happy that these two individuals are off the street, ”Bacon was quoted as saying by AZ Family.

Police mentioned that teenagers are being charged as adults. And his bonds were set at $ 1.5 million.

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