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Two boys confess to preschool pumpkin heist
Two juvenile suspects have confessed to picking clean a pumpkin patch that was cultivated by New Mexico preschoolers, police said Friday
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wo juvenile suspects have confessed to picking clean apumpkin patch that was cultivated by New Mexico preschoolers, police saidFriday.
According to investigators, the two boys admitted raiding a small pumpkin patch cared for by students at Eastern New Mexico University's Child Development Center.
The school has received dozens of donated pumpkins since news of the plunder went viral.
Surveillance footage released Friday showed a group of boys walking around the university at night as one kicks around a pumpkin like a soccer ball. Another boy carries a pumpkin away, the footage showed.
School officials found the handful of pumpkins missing and vines destroyed Monday morning. The Portales school's 26 students had studied and watered them since they were sprouts, officials said.
Eastern New Mexico University police said surveillance footage of the heist and a tip led investigators to the boys.
Eastern New Mexico University Police Chief Brad Mauldin said once the two boys were confronted they confessed pretty quickly. 'This wasn't a hard case to break at all,' Mauldin said. 'The evidence was all right there.'
Footage also shows two other male juveniles involved, and authorities are expected to question them soon, police said.
Two of the suspects are 15 years old, and the other two are both 14.
