8-Year-Old Arrested for Allegedly Stealing Car at Gunpoint

A police officer carries handcuffs before a raid in the Brooklyn borough of New York, Tues
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AWR Hawkins

An eight-year-old was arrested in Alabama after allegedly stealing a car at gunpoint around 11 a.m. Tuesday then refusing to pull over for police.

Police chased the eight-year-old and apprehended him after he crashed into another vehicle, WSFA reported.

The New York Post noted there were no injuries in the accident that resulted in the eight-year-old’s arrest and that a gun was recovered at the scene.

A witness to the alleged car theft said, “Whenever I realized it was a little boy, I knew I had to follow them and make sure no one got hit and that he got caught because don’t want him driving all over Montgomery, causing more accidents or hurting himself or hurting other people.”

The witness added, “I think parents just really need to know where their kids are, what their kids are doing, and just talk to them about these kinds of things.”

The eight-year-old was charged with first-degree robbery and is being held in the Montgomery County Youth Detention Facility.

AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and the writer/curator of Down Range with AWR Hawkins, a weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio and a Turning Point USA Ambassador. He was a Visiting Fellow at the Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal in 2010, a speaker at the 2023 Western Conservative Summit, and he holds a Ph.D. in Military History, with a focus on the Vietnam War (brown water navy), U.S. Navy since Inception, the Civil War, and Early Modern Europe. Follow him on Instagram: @awr_hawkins. You can sign up to get Down Range at breitbart.com/downrange. Reach him directly at awrhawkins@breitbart.com.

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