BY IAN CROUCH
Police are again urging residents to lock up at night and keep car keys out of sight after 3 vehicles were stolen from Hamilton South early Tuesday morning.
Officers were called to reports of persons on premises in Pulver Street just before 3.00am, arriving to find a black Jeep being driven from the home.
They gave chase, with the vehicle losing a wheel and crashing on Charlestown Road near the Newcastle Inner City Bypass.
The driver, believed to be a male in his mid teens, fled while his passenger, a 13-year-old girl from Brewarrina, was arrested.
She's been dealt with under the Young Offenders Act.
Police later found a white Lancer abandoned, while a Volkswagen Tiguan from the Hamilton South address remains outstanding,
