So did everyone in town. They were honor students. One of them, the youngest, was just 11 when he started young adulthood robbing friends and neighbors. These kids were the absolute last people you'd suspect and the trust that was given them was like the fabric in some ancient fable. It allowed them to smilingly case houses and businesses and to know who was home when.
Details are sketchy.
You can be under 18 and be Vlad the Impaler and because of California youth offender laws, your next door neighbor won't know it. What we can piece together is that at least two of the 14 baggy-panted Saugus alleged pinheads have previous arrest records. The ring was busted when the horrified parents of one of the alleged bozos found a pistol in their son's room. The pistol had been stolen. The parents blessedly took the gun to the sheriff's office and from there, the theft ring unraveled.