Two juveniles were arrested and booked into Juvenile Hall Monday in connection with 24 auto burglaries in the Sacramento State Residence Hall parking lot between Jan. 28 and March 12.

The males, 16 and 17 years old, were charged with two counts of receiving stolen property. One subject was also charged with possession of a controlled substance, according to John Hamrick, public information officer for Campus Police. Police officials withheld the names of the suspects because of their ages.

“An officer was on patrol in the dorm parking lot when he saw a blue-green vehicle driving the wrong way through the parking lot,” according to the police report.

The officer then detained the driver and passenger of the vehicle while waiting for additional officers from the Sacramento City Police Department to arrive.

“The passenger window was broken, and I saw a hula doll lying on the back seat, matching one described in a previous police report,” the arresting officer stated in the police report.

The owner of the doll, a dorm resident, was contacted and identified the doll as a missing item from a previous auto burglary.

Officers searched the subjects and found half an ounce of a “white powdery” substance in the possession of one of the juveniles.

“[The substance] tested positive for methamphetamine,” Hamrick said.

Additional items found during a search of the vehicle included burglary tools, flashlights, a red Eddie Bauer gym bag containing a VHS tape, a CD case, a Kodak camera and auto stereo speakers.

According to Hamrick, Campus Police is currently contacting the owners of the items in an attempt to return the property once it has been documented.

The items were taken during three different episodes of auto burglary over the past six weeks, as documented in a daily log kept by Campus Police. The first incident occurred in late January, when six vehicles were vandalized. On Thursday, March 1, 10 more vehicles were broken into. The latest episode happened over the last weekend, when an additional eight vehicles were burglarized. Officers found evidence linking the two juveniles to all 24 burglaries, Hamrick said.

The vehicle the suspects were driving at the time of the arrest is still being investigated, according to Hamrick. It was towed, and officials are still determining the current owner of the vehicle.

The suspects, both of Sacramento, did not have previous records, and the case is currently under investigation.