Teens Locked Elderly Woman in Trunk for 2 Days
By: Fox News
Updated: March 22, 2013
DOVER, Del. - Delaware State Police have charged five teenagers in the carjacking and kidnapping of an 89-year-old Lincoln woman.
Police said Thursday that Margaret E. Smith was locked in the trunk of her car for almost two days before being dumped at a cemetery east of Seaford, where she was found Wednesday morning wandering around the graves. Smith was taken to Nanticoke Memorial Hospital, where she was treated and released.
Police said that as Smith was being interviewed by investigators in Georgetown on Wednesday evening, troopers spotted her car being driven in Bridgeville and took the teenagers into custody after running a license check and learning that the car had been stolen.
Two girls, ages 14 and 15, were detained on $122,000 cash bonds after being charged with robbery, carjacking, kidnapping and conspiracy.
Two boys, both age 17, were being held on $27,000 secured bond after being charged with kidnapping, conspiracy and receiving stolen property.
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