Police: Massachusetts teen found sleeping in stolen car in Weston Place
WESTON PLACE – A Massachusetts teen is in Schuylkill County Prison after township police said she and two other people had been sleeping in a stolen car.
Mckenzie Rivera Small, 18, of 2 Old Stage Road, West Hatfield, Massachusetts, is facing a felony receiving stolen property charge along with a misdemeanor drug paraphernalia charge.
According to a criminal complaint filed by West Mahanoy Township Patrolman John Kaczmarczyk, III, police were called to Weston Place around 11am Saturday for a report of a suspicious vehicle.
A neighbor had reported that a white Ford Focus with Massachusetts plates came to the village some time overnight and its occupants had been sleeping in the car. That neighbor said neither he or three others he spoke to recognized the car or its occupants.
Kaczmarczyk made contact with the occupants and ran the plate number of the vehicle as well.
One of the occupants, Jayden Rivera, told police that they had “stopped to see a friend of a friend, but did not know her name.”
The plate number inquiry noted that the vehicle was reported stolen from Ludlow, Massachusetts, and all occupants were detained.
Kaczmarczyk wrote that Mckenzie Rivera Small, a rear seat passenger, said she had taken the car from her grandmother without permission, and that the other two occupants did to know she took the vehicle without permission.
Additionally, police found two foil packets typically used for holding synthetic marijuana.
West Mahanoy Township Police also contacted Ludlow Police and confirmed that Rivera Small was a suspect in the theft.
Rivera Small was arraigned by on-call Magisterial District Judge James Reiley and committed to Schuylkill County Prison, unable to post $10,000 cash bail.
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