A 12-year-old boy from Pontiac was arrested Friday, June 27, for stealing cars from a Pontiac business, according to police.
The boy reportedly entered numerous vehicles in the parking lot that day, and when he was apprehended, he was carrying a license plate, according to a news release from the Oakland County Sheriff’s Office.
Detectives said the boy had taken three or four vehicles over the last month, selling at least one of them for $30.
“This young man is on a very bad path, attempting to live his own grand theft auto,” Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard said in the news release. “Hopefully intervention by the courts will send him on a better life path as well as stopping the constant theft from this business.”
The boy is being held in Oakland County Children’s Village, and the case remains under investigation, according to police.
This article originally appeared on Detroit Free Press: ‘Attempting to live his own grand theft auto’: Pontiac boy, 12, arrested for stealing cars
Reporting by Natalie Davies, Detroit Free Press / Detroit Free Press
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