A Sugar Grove youth will spend between 9 and 18 months in the Warren County Jail after pleading guilty to two felony charges committed during a string of vehicle break-ins.

Rayden Perrett pleaded guilty to second-degree felony theft by unlawful taking, third-degree felony theft by unlawful taking and third-degree misdemeanor loitering and prowling at night time while six felony charges originally filed against him were not prosecuted.

Perrett was sentenced to 9 to 18 months in jail with credit for two days already served as well as to pay restitution, a no-contact order and 50 hours community service to satisfy the more severe charge of theft by unlawful taking. He was also sentenced to three years probation, restitution, no contact with any of the victims and 50 total hours of community service to satisfy the other two felony guilty pleas.

Perrett also pleaded guilty to third-degree misdemeanor defiant trespass on a second docket while a charge of corruption of minors was not prosecuted. He was sentenced to another year of probation and 30 additional hours of community service on the second docket.

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 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.

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.