By RUSS OLIVO

WOONSOCKET — Most of them weren’t even old enough to drive. But police say four juvenile males all took turns behind the wheel of a stolen truck before they got caught breaking into parked vehicles on Bluestone Drive Thursday.

The teenage boys were allegedly responsible for breaking into at least five vehicles in the neighborhood, near Mt. St. Charles Academy. Police seized a stolen GPS unit, sunglasses, cigarettes house keys — -and rubber gloves — following the arrest of the youths, shortly after midnight.
The police say there has been a wave of similar vehicle crimes in various parts of the city throughout the summer. Pending further investigation, the police said they would not charge the youths with any of the breaks in the Bluestone Drive area.
Instead, the youths were all charged with one count each of the more serious crime of possession of a stolen motor vehicle. Two of the youths were 14 years old, one 15 and one 16, police said.
Police said the youths were driving a 2001 Dodge pickup that had been reported stolen from a man in Blackstone nearly a month ago.
The four youths were arrested after a Bluestone Drive man happened to look out his front window — he was checking to see if his son had come home yet — when he noticed that the dome light was on in his pickup, parked in his driveway.
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Inside, he could see two boys who looked like there were rummaging around the vehicle.
Unaware that they were being watched, the boys got out of the vehicle and walked over to a neighbor’s yard, the man told police. There, the boys entered another parked truck, stealing a GPS unit from the vehicle, police said.
The police apprehended the two boys moments later, walking away from the vehicle. When police asked how they arrived in the neighborhood, the youths steered them to the stolen truck, parked on nearby Roberge Street. Under questioning at police headquarters, they identified their alleged accomplices, who later surrendered with their parents.