B.C. boy, 12, busted for armed robbery with replica pistol
 

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B.C. boy, 12, busted for armed robbery
By Dharm Makwana, QMI Agency

Last Updated: August 11, 2010 5:52pm

VANCOUVER – A 12-year-old Nanaimo, B.C., boy spent Wednesday night behind bars on an armed robbery charge.

On Tuesday, the child, who’s had more than 100 run-ins with police, pulled a replica handgun on a 21-year-old victim and demanded his cellphone and cash.

The victim, who was exiting his vehicle, fled and called police with a suspect description allowing officers to quickly capture the adolescent and another boy who was with him at the time.

Investigators have yet to determine if the second boy was an accomplice or oblivious to the heist.

There are no signs either suspect is involved in organized criminal activity.

Police cannot identify the suspects under the Youth Criminal Justice Act. Sgt. Sheryl Armstrong said criminal children are usually more likely to be shoplifting than holding people at gunpoint.

“I’ve been in the RCMP for 29 years and I’ve never had a 12-year-old pull an armed robbery with a weapon,” she said.

She added the boy’s mother is working with police and the Ministry of Children and Family development to steer the boy onto the straight-and-narrow, but a lack of support program has proved to be an overwhelming obstacle.

Armstrong is hoping government-funded therapy options can be offered now that the boy can be formally charged under the YCJA because he is 12 years old.

“From the criminal perspective, we’re hoping he can get into a youth forensics program so we can figure out what are the root causes of why he’s doing what he’s doing, what we can do better and what we can do to get him on a healthy track,” she said.

The boy will appear in Nanaimo Provincial Court Thursday morning.

More than 100 run-in with the police?

And they think they can steer that kid on the right lane? LOL!
This little piece of shit will be a career criminal if not dead before 18.

wow just wow
its hard to see hows at fault
I mean for all we know the mother has tried everything and the kid is still screwed up unfortunately which might explain why he committed armed robbery
im interested though in where he got the gun

how'd he get the gun at 12? if his parents got it 4 him then wtf, cuz after over 100 run-ins with the police i think they would have figured not to let him near a weapon of any kind. Anyways thats the kind of s--- thats going to make things harder for actual airsofters and possibly get it banned in canada.

POS kid. I hope he gets raped by bubba when he is older.

bahaha gansta shit kids... XD

they said replica not airsoft so we dont know that for sure altho it might be
i dont think airsoft would be banned because of this though maybe just tighter regulations or more age regulations

Doesn't mean that people won't be ignorant to what airsoft really is. Hopefully they do instate a Canada-Wide 18+ rule. But due to his history, I doubt it will have a large effect. If any.

im just glad they didnt focus on hte gun part as much as the 'armed robbery' and 'why is he doing this stuff', makes it not so bad for us

Ministry of Children and Family development?

For real? That shit exists? I mean, I know about Family and Children services, or Childrens Aid Society, but the government feels the need to interfere with family development?

Then again, if the parents aren't doing it, I suppose someone should... Not that I have a lot of faith in institutionalizing families and shit...

This is all kinds of fucked up right here.

Faggot lil kids like that ruins the airsoft community in Canada.

Forget it.

Stupid kids do stupid things.

There's no need for more regulations.

Lets blame it on rap music.

Its that or video games.

How does one have 100 run-ins with the police by 12?

That kid gets caught a lot.

Sounds like a shitty criminal to me.