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Detective Joe Couch said Saturday five boys, ranging in age from 11 to 15 years, have admitted breaking into five homes and stealing presents in a two-week period before Christmas.
Taken from under Christmas trees in the homes were such items as scarves, perfume, purses, a comb and brush set and handkerchiefs. Also removed from piggy banks and drawers was at lesat $53 in cash.
The money has not been recovered, and the only major gift returned thus far was a woman's wrist watch valued at $55, which one of the boys left inside the storm door at the front of the house shortly after stealing it.
The boys told police they entered the homes-one of them four times-either through unlatched windows or by finding the front door keys while the occupants were away for the evening.
Detectives traced the boys by descriptions given by a neighbor who saw them running from a house which already had been entered on several previous evenings.
Couch said two of the boys had been before juvenile authorities in the past for shoplifting and a third for defacing property.
None of the boys offered a 'reasonable' explanation for the thefts, he said.
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