<div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>A manhunt for three teenagers plunged a quiet </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/sydney" rel="" target="" title="Sydney"><span>Sydney</span></a><span> street into lockdown today after a highway pursuit involving a car police claim was stolen.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Police attempted to pull over the Genesis SUV on the Hume Highway at Menangle, south-west of Sydney, at 10.40am but the vehicle allegedly took off.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Ten minutes later the car was found on Downes Crescent in the nearby Sydney suburb of Currans Hill but the three teenagers had walked off into the neighbourhood.</span></div></div><div><div id="adspot-mobile-medium"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 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for the usually quiet area.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"There were cops everywhere, they had them on the ground, everyone was crowding around," she said. </span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"A bit of excitement for the neighbourhood."</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Officers found a large knife in bushland close to where the three were arrested.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/olivia-hussey-eisley-star-of-romeo-and-juliet-dies-aged-73/f7bfcb94-6f21-4437-9322-dd301902a41b" rel="" target="" title=""><strong><span>Olivia Hussey Eisley, star of 1968 film Romeo and Juliet, dies aged 73</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The alleged offenders were taken from Goode Street in Currans Hill to Narellan Police Station, where they were interviewed by detectives this afternoon.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Police claim the car involved in the highway pursuit had been recently stolen from Canberra.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Officers are now investigating whether the group is linked to any crimes in the Australian Capital Territory.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/how-to-follow-9news-digital/29855bb1-ad3d-4c38-bc25-3cb52af1216f" target="_blank"><strong><em><span>DOWNLOAD THE 9NEWS APP</span></em></strong></a><strong><em><span>:</span></em></strong><span> 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