{"id":20751,"date":"2023-11-28T02:02:17","date_gmt":"2023-11-28T08:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=20751"},"modified":"2023-11-28T02:02:24","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T08:02:24","slug":"child-driving-stolen-construction-forklift-leads-ann-arbor-police-on-chase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=20751","title":{"rendered":"Child driving stolen construction forklift leads Ann Arbor police on chase"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">A 12-year-old boy driving a stolen construction vehicle led police in Michigan on an hourlong chase, striking about 10 parked vehicles in the process, the Ann Arbor Police Department said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The vehicle, a Construction Genie GTH-636 Telehandler \u2014 equipped with a forklift and weighing up to 35,000 pounds \u2014 was stolen from outside Forsythe Middle School using a key found in the cab, police said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;This was a very dangerous situation that could\u2019ve easily ended with serious injuries,&#8221; police said in a statement. &#8216;The incident remains an active and ongoing criminal investigation.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Police were first called to the school around 6:45 p.m. and later found the boy driving down a street without the vehicle&#8217;s headlights on. With emergency lights on and sirens blaring, multiple officers pursued the vehicle at 15 to 20 mph through the Georgetown Boulevard neighborhood, police said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Nobody was injured, the police department said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">In a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wL5Lt-jfwso&amp;t\">video of the pursuit<\/a>&nbsp;shared by the department, Ann Arbor police can be heard saying, &#8220;He\u2019s lowering the hooks \u2014 don\u2019t go in front of&#8221; the forklift.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Police stopped the pursuit around 7:20 p.m. when the child left city limits via the M-14 bridge. The Washtenaw County Sheriff\u2019s Office picked up the pursuit until just before 8 p.m., when the child stopped driving.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The boy, whose identity was not released because he is a minor, was taken into custody Saturday night and put in a juvenile detention center.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/child-driving-stolen-construction-forklift-leads-ann-arbor-police-purs-rcna126889\">Nbcnews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 12-year-old boy driving a stolen construction vehicle led police in Michigan on an hourlong chase, striking about 10 parked vehicles in the process, the Ann Arbor Police Department said. The vehicle, a Construction Genie GTH-636 Telehandler \u2014 equipped with a forklift and weighing up to 35,000 pounds \u2014 was stolen from outside Forsythe Middle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":20752,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1154],"tags":[24567,24568,4016,1237,6888,5585],"class_list":["post-20751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-12-year-old-boy","tag-construction-vehicle","tag-middle-school","tag-police","tag-pursuit","tag-theft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20751"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20753,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20751\/revisions\/20753"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}