Teens were charged after damaging Mill Creek High School’s football field and nearly hitting a police officer with a stolen truck

BUFORD, Ga. (Atlanta News First) – Gwinnett County police say two teenagers are facing multiple charges after a truck was stolen and used to damage a high school football field before nearly hitting a police officer who was trying to arrest the suspects.

The pickup truck was reported stolen Tuesday from a home on Adams Acre Drive in Lawrenceville, police said.

Police said that after the truck was stolen, it was driven to Mill Creek High School and used to cause damage to the football field.

The truck was spotted by flock cameras in Buford later that day. Police then found it at a Walmart on Sardis Church Road.

“As the officers were giving instructions to the occupants, they drove the car toward an officer and nearly struck him with their vehicle,” a police press release said.

The two suspects were reportedly arrested after they sped away, collided with another car and attempted to flee.

According to police, the driver, a 16-year-old girl, was shot with a taser as she tried to flee.

The other suspect, later identified as 17-year-old Robert Krause, was also arrested.

According to police, both were charged with aggravated assault on a police officer, fleeing or attempting to elude a police officer, reckless driving, hit and run, driving without a license, obstructing driving, giving a false name to a police officer and theft by taking a motor vehicle and entering a car.

Krause was taken to the Gwinnett County Jail and the other suspect was taken to a juvenile detention center.

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