Boy, 12, Charged In Rash Of Car Thefts, Sold One Car For $30: Sheriff

PONTIAC, MI — A 12-year-old boy was arrested in connection with a series of car thefts from an Oakland County business Friday, according to the sheriff's office.

Officials said the boy took three or four vehicles from a Pontiac business over the past month. Officials said he sold at least one of the vehicles for $30.

When officers stopped the boy, officials said he was carrying a license plate.

"This young man is on a very bad path, attempting to live his own grand theft auto," Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard said. "Hopefully intervention by the courts will send him on a better life path as well as stopping the constant theft from this business."

The boy was placed in the Oakland County Children’s Village.