A juvenile was arrested early Friday morning, Feb. 13, after a Burien Police deputy stopped a vehicle that had been reported stolen just hours earlier, according to the Burien Police Department.
Police said that just after midnight, a deputy on routine patrol observed a Honda Civic traveling north in Burien without front or rear lights activated during hours of darkness and weaving within its lane of travel. The deputy initiated a traffic stop.
After the stop was called out, King County dispatchers advised the deputy that the Honda had been reported stolen a few hours earlier, police said. The driver pulled over and deputies conducted a high risk vehicle stop. The driver was taken into custody without incident.
Police said that after being advised of Miranda rights, the driver admitted to stealing the vehicle and acknowledged knowing it was stolen.
Deputies later determined that the driver was a reported missing juvenile and was not old enough to have a learner permit.
“The juvenile was transported to the Juvenile Detention Center where they were declined due to their claim of smoking a ‘pound of fentanyl,'” police said.
The deputy then transported the juvenile to a hospital, where they were medically cleared.
After receiving medical clearance, the juvenile was successfully booked into the Juvenile Detention Center.
That’s not his first rodeo because he pulled the “I smoked a pound” trick to delay his booking and just needlessly wasted more resources. Let him smoke it next time, and sit back and watch as he won’t get far.
So what are we doing about the parental neglect? Clearly the kid was too young for a permit and out on the streets stealing cars after midnight. Does the kid even have a chance of being a decent person as an adult?
The parents are probably hiring a attorney to claim the stop was a illegal stop and the officers involved should be fired. All charges drop because their child is such a good kid and would never do anything like this .