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Di'Amond Wade and Quavia Washington-Hairston were arrested on suspicion of receiving stolen property. Around 1:30 Tuesday morning, a traffic stop determined the two Dodge Durangos the teens were driving were stolen. One of the teens was an employee at Tom Ahl Dealership and knew how to access the car keys. Police say they stole the cars on Monday night and had been driving them around for a day. The police believe the teens intended to either keep the cars or sell them. Both cars have been recovered. And both teens have been released from jail due to COVID-19 concerns.

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Police have arrested a suspect for the fire that burned down a warehouse and he made his first court appearance.

61-year-old Elmer Mault was in Lima Municipal Court where it was determined there was probable cause in his arson case. It is now bound over to Allen County Common Pleas Court to be heard by a grand jury.

Police say they have still images of Mault from a security camera inside the National Overstock Liquidation of Ohio facility on Findlay Road. A detective says Mault told them he was told to break into the pallet warehouse. He proceeded to steal items, leave and come back repeatedly. On his last trip around 4 a.m. he says he was told to start a fire.

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Both the Allen County Sheriff's Office and Lima Police Department were busy Friday morning investigating a robbery. Shortly before 9:30, both agencies received a call that the Dollar General on North Jameson Avenue had been robbed. The Lima Police Department has described the suspect, who is still on the run, as a black man, between 30 and 40 years old. He's about 6 feet tall, thin with facial hair, wearing a dark brown Carhart with a hood and white mark on the right shoulder.