Cops pursue driver, discover he’s boy, 10

FOSTORIA, OHIO — An erratic, speeding driver who led an Ohio officer on a brief pursuit turned out to be a 10-yearold boy who took his parents’ car without permission and drove 11 miles to a nearby city to shop at a convenience store, police said.

The chase began Sunday morning when an officer in Fostoria, roughly 40 miles south of Toledo, tried to stop a driver who wasn’t using headlights and kept braking, and the vehicle took off at 70 mph, WTOL-TV reported. T h e v e h i c l e e v e n t u a l l y struck a curb and stopped in a restaurant parking lot, where the officer was surprised to discover that the driver was a child.

“It appears he wanted to go shopping,” Police Chief Keith Loreno told The (Fostoria) Review Times.

N o o n e wa s hu r t , b u t police said the boy nearly collided head-on with a tractor-trailer and jeopardized the safety of others.

“At o n e p o i n t , h e f a r exceeded the speed limits of the cit y,” Loreno said. “Besides himself, he placed a lot of people in serious danger.”

The boy, from the nearby town of Kansas, was taken into custody and charged wi t h f l e e i n g f r o m a l aw enforcement officer.

His parents were not been charged, but the juvenile court and children’s services are reviewing the case, The Review Times reported.