Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe GODFREY, Ill., Feb. 17 (UPI) -- Authorities in Illinois said they arrested three teenagers who allegedly stole and abandoned a backhoe without covering their snow footprints. Police said Dylan Andrew Johnson, 18, Jacob Benjamin Hook, 18, and a juvenile took the backhoe from a Village of Godfrey site during a Monday snowstorm but abandoned the construction vehicle only about 100 yards from where it originally sat, the Belleville News-Democrat reported Wednesday. Advertisement Investigators said they followed the footprints in the snow to the home of one of the suspects, where all three teenagers were found. "The suspects admitted to driving away in the backhoe and abandoning the backhoe in the field after observing a salt truck returning to the park," said Capt. Marc McLemore of the Madison County Sheriff's Department. Investigators said all three suspects failed portable breath-alcohol tests. They were each charged with unlawful consumption of alcohol by a minor and criminal trespass to a motor vehicle.
