NEW CASTLE —
An 18-year-old South Side man is accused in the theft of medication from a woman’s mail.
New Castle police have charged Alvin Larica Perkins Jr. of 16 W. Reynolds St. in connection with the theft, which occurred Nov. 11.
Police said a witness reported seeing three males take a package from a porch on Dushane Street. The resident said she had been expecting prescription medication in the mail.
Officers said they found the three hiding in a storage shed in the 800 block of Franklin Avenue. Two are juveniles, both 17-year-old New Castle residents, and the third was identified as Perkins.
Perkins is being charged with theft, criminal conspiracy to commit theft, receiving stolen property and criminal conspiracy to commit receiving stolen property.
He was sent a summons to appear in court.
The others are to be charged by juvenile petition.
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