• Login
• My Profile
• Help

Search

Products Police Products Accident Reconstruction AEDs AFIS Ammunition Antennas Apparel Badges Bags and Cases Ballistic Shields Batons Bicycles Biometrics Body Armor Books and Training Materials CAD Cameras Cargo Storage Collectibles Communications Communications Interoperability Computer Forensics Concealable Armor Consoles Correctional Armor Corrections Products Crime Scene Investigation Crisis Communications Data/Information Sharing Software Dispatch Equipment DNA Forensics Duty Boots Duty Gear Emergency Lighting Emergency Preparedness Emergency Response Emergency Response Software EOD Evidence Management Eyewear False Alarm Management Financial Services Firearm Accessories Firearms Firearms Storage Fitness Flashlights Footwear For Cops, By Cops Forensic Supplies Gas Masks GIS/Mapping Software Gloves Gun Cleaning Gun Racks Handguns Headsets Helmets Holsters In Car Video Investigation Investigation Software Jail Management K9 Police Training K9 Products Knives Laser Traffic Enforcement Less Lethal License Plate Readers Light Bars Medical Supplies Mics Mobile Computers Mobile Data Motorcycle Accessories and Gear Motorcycles Mounts Night Vision Outerwear P25 Radios Partitions and Barriers Patrol Cars Personal Protective Equipment Personal Shields Personal Transportation Vehicles Police Robots Power Distribution Precision Rifle Prisoner Transport Projectiles and Launchers Public Safety Software Public Venue Protection Push Bumper Radar Radio/Wireless Networks Radios Report Writing Software Restraints Riot Gear RMS Satellite Communications Scheduling Search and Rescue Secure Communications Shooting Range Equipment Shotguns Sights and Scopes Simulation Software Sirens Software Specialty Vehicles Sprays and Aerosols Storage Surveillance Tactical Apparel Tactical Armor Tactical Entry Tactical Eyewear Tactical Footwear Tactical Headsets Tactical Medical / TEMS Tactical Products Tactical Video TASER Technology Thermal Imaging Traffic Enforcement Training Training Gear Training Products Training Services Training Simulators Undercover Undergear Uniforms Vehicle Equipment Vehicle Graphics Vehicles Video Analysis Video Surveillance Weapon Lights Wire Tap Systems Wireless Communications Wireless Handsets Wireless Networking WMD Equipment

• PoliceOne Email

Juvenile Crime Resources

Center on Juvenile & Criminal Justice DOJ Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Juvenile Offenders & Troubled Teens National Council on Crime and Delinquency Office of Juvenile Justice & Delinquency Prevention More Links Submit A Listing

Featured Product Categories

Search and Rescue Gloves Jail Management Data/Information Sharing Software Firearms Storage View All Categories

Juvenile Crime Article

March 19, 2008

EmailPrintTalk BackRegisterRSSWhat's This

Texas boy leads officers on chase

By Renee C. Lee
Houston Chronicle

HOUSTON, Texas — A 13-year-old boy was in custody Tuesday, accused of stealing a car and evading arrest following separate pursuits with Harris County sheriff's deputies and Houston police officers.

The incident ended with him crashing into a concrete barrier, authorities said.

The boy led Houston police on a chase when officers tried to stop him for a traffic violation on Interstate 45 near Monroe around 4 a.m. Tuesday, said Houston Police Department spokesman John Cannon.

Once officers discovered the 2006 silver Pontiac G6 the boy was driving was stolen from the Conroe area, they turned on the patrol car lights and siren, but the boy refused to stop, Cannon said.

The pursuit continued south on the Gulf Freeway where the boy exited at Edgewood, south of Beltway 8. He then made a U-turn, drove north on the Gulf Freeway for several miles before he slammed into a concrete barrier and sideswiped a passing vehicle in the 8400 block of the Gulf Freeway, Cannon said.

The driver of the passing vehicle was not hurt, but the boy was treated for minor injuries.

Shortly before the chase with the Houston police, the boy had been involved in a 20-mile pursuit with Harris County sheriff's deputies, Cannon said. The deputies called off the chase on I-45 in the same vicinity where Houston police spotted the boy making a traffic violation, said Cannon, who did not know where the chase with the deputies started.

The owner of the car was in the process of reporting to the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office that the vehicle was stolen when the chase occurred, he said. The car was stolen about 2 a.m., he said. The owner knew the boy, but he was not a relative, he said.

The boy is in custody at the Harris County Juvenile Probation Department on charges of unauthorized use of a vehicle and evading arrest, a felony charge, Cannon said.

Copyright 2008 The Houston Chronicle





Back to previous page