BY ANDREA TORTORA
The Cincinnati Enquirer
FORT MITCHELL -- Multiple police departments were on a manhunt through the city early Saturday, searching for two men who allegedly stole two cars and broke into a handful of others on Greenbriar Avenue.
Police started their search at 5:30 a.m. on Greenbriar Avenue, after stopping a 1997 maroon Saturn owned by Scott Maier of Kenview Drive in Kenwood. Police do not know where the car was stolen from. When police stopped the car, a white male and a black male fled. They were described as in their late teens or early 20s.
A 16-year-old girl and a teen-age boy, both of Cincinnati, stayed behind, police said. Police did not identify the two because they are juveniles. Both were arrested and are in the Kenton County Jail. Police said the four were trying to leave the area with a second car, taken from the driveway of Beechwood Schools Superintendent Fred Bassett. The 1998 green Subaru was left behind when the four realized they were spotted by residents, police said.
Fort Mitchell Police Detective Tom Loos said the four had left the Saturn at the bottom of Greenbriar and went to the top of the road, where they took the Subaru and drove it to the bottom of the street. Detective Loos said he thinks the group planned to take both cars but panicked when they realized residents were up and tried to leave in just the Saturn. That's when police stopped them, he said.
Representatives of Kenton County, Florence and Hamilton County police departments searched the Fort Mitchell area by foot, car or helicopter and with canine units.
The two males who fled were last seen near the Norfolk Southern Railroad tracks, going north toward Ludlow, police said.
After five hours, the search was called off.
Police recovered $800 worth of car stereos, CDs, radar detectors and cell phones from the stolen vehicles.
Police are also checking to see if the four were involved in break-ins that occurred on other Fort Mitchell streets, Detective Loos said.
