Two teenage boys were arrested Tuesday by the Auburn Police Department on charges they broke into two Columbus Street, Auburn, businesses last weekend.

A cash register, two plasma televisions and a candy machine were stolen during an early Saturday morning burglary at the Auburn Diner at 64 Columbus St., police said. Police recovered the register and the candy machine. The register and candy machine were found submerged in a nearby stream. The televisions have not yet been recovered.

Carovail Inc., at 53 Columbus St., also was broken into Saturday morning sometime between 3 and 4 a.m. A candy machine was damaged and two paint cans were stolen from a new stockpile of paint at the business, police said. Carovail repairs farm equipment and fertilizes farmers' fields.

The paint cans were found abandoned on the Auburn Diner lot, police said. The paint was used to vandalize a fence on the lot. “Moose,” “Stan” and swear words were written on the fence, located next to a garbage container on the lot.

Paul Metler, 16, of Auburn, and Martin Short, 17, of Auburn, have been charged with two felony charges of third-degree burglary and other larceny and criminal mischief charges, police said. Other boys are suspected in the burglaries and will be arrested, they said.

The boys were caught on a security videotape at Carovail, police said. Patrol officers were able to tentatively identify some of them, which helped APD develop the burglary suspects, they said.

Staff writer Amaris Elliott-Engel can be reached at 253-5311 ext. 282 or at amaris.elliot-engel@lee.net