Two Minnesota teens went on a shopping spree after stealing a quarter-million dollars from their grandfather on Christmas Day, the St. Paul Pioneer Press reported.
According to the newspaper, the 18- and 19-year-old men went on a two-day shopping spree that including the purchases of at least six cars and trucks, clothes, shoes, a laptop computer and a flat-screen television, authorities said. The teens also allegedly handed out $100 bills to their friends, telling their acquaintances they won the money at a casino, authorities said.
The Pioneer Press reported that according to authorities, Andrew Selvig and Samuel Durkot took the money from their grandfather's Amery, Wis., home. Authorities said the money, which was allegedly kept in a small safe in the house, was reported missing Sunday.
Authorities arrested Selvig at his father's home in Lake City, Minn., the Pioneer Press reported. Durkot was arrested in Elizabethtown, Ky., where he fled with a juvenile female runaway, authorities said.
Selvig had recently lived with his grandparents for nine months, the newspaper reported. Selvig's father said his son told him that Durkot took the money and only revealed what he had done after they had left the home.
Authorities said Wednesday they have recovered about $140,000 of the stolen money.