Car theft shut down by witness

OTHELLO – Adams County Sheriff’s deputies arrested two car thieves after witnesses called in to report suspicious circumstances.

The sheriff’s office received an in-progress stolen vehicle report from dispatch Thursday morning, Nov. 12, around 9:30 a.m. after a witness reported seeing a male and female fleeing from a vehicle on foot in the area of South Booker Road and West Foley Road.

Deputies arrived on scene and contacted the subjects attempting to flee the area. Adams County Sheriff Dale Wagner said the suspects were fleeing after wrecking the 2017 Mercedes Benz. They were both detained pending an investigation. Deputies soon discovered the residence where the vehicle came from was burglarized as well.

Enrique Leon, 28, and Lizbeth Campos-Prado, 31, were taken into custody and later booked into the Adams County Jail for Residential Burglary and Theft of a Motor Vehicle.

“We’d like to thank the people who assisted us in finding them,” Sheriff Wagner said, adding the investigation was still ongoing as of Friday, Nov. 13.