Five Rochester teenagers are in custody after police chased down a car stolen from the parking lot of School #54 on the West Side. The chase ended in a crash on Mt. Read Boulevard near Otis Street, where the car slid off the road and into the ditch.
Police said the crash was due to an inexperienced, unlicensed driver who was under the legal age to drive. Three boys and two girls ran from the car but all were caught.
The car was taken from a 49-year-old woman who was leaving the school when a group of teenagers approached, threatened her with a machete and demanded her car. Some of the suspects fled in her car while the others left in another car.