Teens arrested in carjacking

Two brothers, ages 14 and 15, were arrested in North Carolina on Thursday and accused of carjacking an 81-year-old woman at gunpoint in Lauderdale Lakes on Jan. 15, officials said.

A third suspect, also 14, was turned in to police by his mother Jan. 18.

They’re only 14 and 15 but the two brothers managed to flee the state and elude authorities for three weeks after they were publicly accused of carjacking an 81-year-old woman at gunpoint in Lauderdale Lakes, authorities said.

The brothers were arrested Thursday in North Carolina, the Broward Sheriff’s Office announced Friday.

A third suspect, also 14, was turned in to police by his mother on Jan. 18, three days after the Jan. 15 carjacking.

Because the boys are juveniles, the South Florida Sun Sentinel is not naming them or publishing their pictures.

According to a police report the trio stalked the elderly woman. Surveillance footage showed three young boys wearing blueknit caps following Albina Curik into a Walmart at 3001 N. State Road 7, and back out into the parking lot.

One boy stood on each side of the woman while the third boy approached her from the front, took aim with a gun and demanded her keys, the report said.

Thinking it was a joke because the baby-faced boy looked so young, Curik asked him to repeat his demand. Instead he snatched her car keys from her hand, she said.

“It was scary and shocking,” she told the Sun Sentinel three days after the stick-up. Curik could not be reached for comment Friday.

The teens sped off in Curik’s 2015 Toyota Corolla, which was found later the same day, about 2 miles from the store, Curik said.