SALEM — Frazer Anderson and some friends were walking home early Sunday when they noticed something odd going on in his Chestnut Street driveway.

The dome light was on, and, as Anderson got closer, he realized a woman was rummaging in his car, police said.

Now that woman, Michelle Chase, 19, of Haverhill, is one of three teenagers charged with multiple car breaks on Salem's wealthiest street, as well as several other streets in the historic McIntire District of Salem.

Chase, as well as Ryan S. Leveille, 18, and Jonathan Neves, 17, all of Haverhill, pleaded not guilty to 19 counts each during their arraignment in Salem District Court.

Chase was ordered held on $3,500 bail, while bail for Leveille and Neves was set at $1,000 each.

Salem police Lt. Conrad Prosniewski said Anderson wound up chasing the teens as they took off running. He called police from a cell phone as he followed the trio, and police caught up with them at the corner of Margin and Gedney streets.

Chase was carrying a flowered tote that she claimed was her own purse, Prosniewski said. But inside was a TomTom GPS and the license and credit card of another person. Turns out those items — and the bag — had been stolen from various cars on Chestnut, Beckford, Warren, Andover and River streets.

Leveille was allegedly carrying the wallet of a River Street man. Police found another GPS, a Garmin, that was dropped inside a police cruiser while the three were being taken to the station.

Police identified some of the targeted cars by following footprints in the newly fallen snow, Prosniewski said.

It's not clear how the three ended up in Salem, where Neves is originally from and where a Department of Children and Families case worker told the judge that Neves had been staying recently in violation of a court order. Both Neves and Leveille are in foster homes in Haverhill.

Lawyers for the three argued that the alleged crimes were not serious enough to warrant holding the three in custody. Chase's lawyer, Heather Ramsey, said her client is a senior at Haverhill High who is about to become the first person in her family to graduate from high school.

Leveille is a senior at Whittier Regional Vocational Technical School and has been doing well in his new foster home, said lawyer Pat Regan.

All three are due back in court on Feb. 11. Judge Robert Cornetta ordered that if any of them make bail they must stay away from the areas where the breaks occurred.