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by Randy Cassingham

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An 11-year-old boy from Kansas City, Kan., has been charged with aggravated robbery in a carjacking. Police connected the unnamed boy to the crime when he drove the car he allegedly stole — at gunpoint or simulated gunpoint — to school. Astonished school staff saw him drive up and called police. “This is very unusual,” said district attorney Jerome Gorman. (Kansas City Star) ...That he stole the car, or that he was so anxious to go to school?
Available in This is True: Book Collection Vol. 12

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