Photo provided by the Pennsylvania State Police The Pennsylvania State Police released this surveillance photo from a home security system in Sugar Grove in September. One of the two youths has now been charged in a string of vehicle thefts from the Sugar Grove area that includes a .22 caliber revolver.

A Sugar Grove teen has been jailed on $50,000 bail after being accused of a rash of vehicle break-ins in Sugar Grove last fall.

Rayden Perrett, 19, of Sugar Grove was charged Wednesday with theft by unlawful taking – movable property, a class 2 felony; theft from a motor vehicle, a class 3 felony; loitering and prowling at night time, a misdemeanor; firearms not to be carried without a license, a class 3 felony; hindering apprehension/prosecution – providing aid, a class 3 felony; receiving stolen property, a class 3 felony; criminal mischief – tampering; receiving stolen property, a class 2 felony; conspiracy – theft by unlawful taking – movable property, a class 3 felony; and conspiracy – theft by unlawful taking – movable property, a class 2 felony. Perrett was arrested by the State Police at Warren and arraigned Wednesday by Magisterial District Judge Todd Woodin. Bail was set at $50,000, which Perrett was unable to post. He was taken to the Warren County Prison. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for Wednesday.

According to an Affidavit of Probable Cause filed by the State Police at Warren, Perrett and a juvenile co-defendant from New York state stole a .22 caliber revolver stolen from a vehicle in Sugar Grove as well miscellaneous items valued at $2,029 from several vehicles parked in Sugar Grove on Sept. 21.

State Police at Warren were contacted Sept. 21 by a Sugar Grove man who reported his revolver and $150 cash had been taken from his unlocked truck overnight while the truck was parked in his driveway. A couple of hours later, another Sugar Grove resident called the State Police at Warren reporting he had seen two people on his surveillance camera prowling around his vehicle at 4:15 a.m. attempting to open the driver’s door handle of his vehicle. Four more people contacted the State Police on Sept. 21 reporting items had been stolen from their vehicle. Two people reported finding their stolen items stashed off the side of the road, wrapped in a sweatshirt, near Sugar Grove.

“During the course of the investigation, the actors were identified by two different people from a picture of the actors taken from one of the victim’s home surveillance cameras that was published in the Warren Times Observer as part of the investigation,” the Affidavit of Probable Cause states.

On Oct. 1, the second youth was interviewed by state troopers and allegedly admitted to stealing from 20 vehicles, saying he was at Perrett’s house Sept. 20-21 when Perrett allegedly asked if the youth wanted to “loot” cars. The unnamed youth was then allegedly given gloves and a face mask by Perrett. Perrett allegedly arranged transportation so the two could be taken from Perrett’s home to the Sugar Grove. The affidavit states that once the pair were in Sugar Grove they walked from house to house searching for unlocked vehicles to steal from, putting the items in a backpack. Some of the items were stashed by the side of the road wrapped in a hoodie to be retrieved later.

What happened to the firearm is still up in the air, according to the Affidavit of Probable Cause. The unnamed second defendant allegedly told police they found the revolver in the glove box of a vehicle, but Perrett grabbed the gun from the youth and allegedly said he was keeping it. The youth told police he didn’t remember seeing the revolver when the teen and Perrett returned to Perrett’s bedroom and dumped the contents of the backpack on Perrett’s bed.

“I asked (the youth) if he could recall any conversations he had with Perrett, while conversing over Snapchat, if the whereabouts of the firearm was mentioned, to which (the youth) stated he couldn’t remember,” the affidavit states.

Perrett and the unnamed youth communicated via Snapchat once the youth returned to his home in New York state after police listed the two as suspects in the vehicle break-ins. The youth allegedly told police Perrett wanted the youth to take responsibility for all of the thefts because the punishment would be less severe because of the youth’s juvenile status. Police obtained a search warrant for Snapchat usernames for the youth and Perrett, and allegedly found a post showing the two wearing the same descriptive clothes as the surveillance footage shared with the Times Observer in September.