Boy, 15, and Elementary School Teacher Missing - Lisa Lavoie, Maurice A. Donahue Elementary School

UPDATE: Missing Teacher and Teen Found in West Virginia Super 8 Motel! - Okay who had WV in the pool? No one? Well at least it's on the way to Orlando, Florida where we predicted they would end up, so we get half a point on this one. At right, Lisa Lavoie's mug shot picture. She's now listed as being 24 for some reason.

Here's more from the Boston Herald:

Massachusetts schoolteacher Lisa Lavoie is behind bars on a kidnapping charge in West Virginia today after police found her at a motel with a 15-year-old boy whose parents had complained about the relationship.

Lavoie, 24, appeared before a Monongalia County magistrate by videoconference from the North Central Regional Jail near Flatwoods, in central West Virginia. She was ordered held without bond because kidnapping in West Virginia carries a possible life sentence, said State Police Cpl. T.W. Goodnight.

In Massachusetts, she faces a charge of enticing a child under 16, and authorities in West Virginia plan to charge her as a fugitive from justice, Goodnight said. Michael Sullivan, mayor of Holyoke, Mass., said the enticement charge includes statutory rape. Lavoie will likely be released to Massachusetts authorities, but those details have not been worked out.

Authorities had been tracking the teacher and boy for several days through credit card and cell phone use, Sullivan said. On Monday night, state police were informed she was at the Super 8 Motel in a Morgantown shopping center just off Interstate 68. A motel manager declined comment, but Goodnight said the staff had been in contact with Massachusetts authorities before his team arrived this morning. After confirming a vehicle in the parking lot belonged to Lavoie, troopers got a passkey and went to her room.

The door was deadbolted, and officers tried to kick it in before Lavoie and the boy opened it, Goodnight said. Lavoie surrendered quietly.

EARLIER: Is 15 too old to be in elementary school? Apparently not at Maurice A. Donahue Elementary School in Holyoke, MA, where an eighth grade boy has--according to police--allegedly run off with his female teacher, 22.

Cops say that the parents of the boy came to them more than a week ago to file a missing persons report and asked them to interview Lisa Lavoie, the teen's teacher at the school. But now Lavoie is also missing and now HER parents have also filed a police report. It didn't take the boys at CSI: Holyoke to conclude that the pair has likely run off together . . . the question is where? The Canadian boarder is closer, but Mexico, despite the current unrest there, always seems to have an allure for runaway teens and their adult lovers.

Next on the list is usually Las Vegas, although it's harder to get work there now. Our bet is on Florida, likely the Orlando area near the theme parks.

We'd like to post pictures of the missing couple so that our readers could help in the search, but so far the cops--for some unknown reason--are refusing to release them. Hogging all the glory of the capture for yourself officers? If you think you've seen them, please contact the FBI or the Holyoke Police Department. (CBS 3 Springfield)

Female Teacher, 38, Accused of Having Sex With Boy on Classroom Floor & in Pickup Truck - Anna M. Bettencourt

The year is still young and yet the female teacher sex scandals seem to just keep stacking up, don't they?

The latest one is from Bliss High School in Gooding, Idaho (who had Idaho in the pool?) where according to court records, a 16-year-old boy claims he engaged is sexual intercourse twice with teacher Anna M. Bettencourt (mug shot picture at right) once on the floor of the school's agriculture shop on a Sunday (a Sunday?), and a second time in the boy's pickup truck after they met up at the school.

The teen claims the inappropriate relationship started six or seven months ago when Bettencourt started sending him sexually charged text messages. In court records he also claims that she told him " . . . she was going through bad times in her life and she enjoyed the attention and made the mistake of engaging in very inappropriate text-messaging with him."

Bettencourt, 39, was charged with two counts of felony sexual battery of a minor and could face up to life in prison if convicted. (Times News)

Boy, 15, Claims He Had Sex With Female Teacher, 37, More Than 40 Times, Once in Kmart Parking Lot

Sounds like a Blue Ball--we mean, Blue LIGHT Special to us!

The accused in one Angela “Angel” Simmons Lindle, a seventh-grade science teacher at Edgewood Middle School (South Carolina) Here's more from the Index Journal:

A 15-year-old boy has told authorities he had sexual relations with an Edgewood Middle School teacher 40 to 50 times when he was 14. Greenwood County Sheriff’s Office released the arrest warrant affidavits Saturday in relation to its charges against Edgewood teacher Angela “Angel” Simmons Lindle, 37, of Donalds, on seven counts of second-degree criminal sexual conduct with a minor.

According to the warrant affidavits, filed by GCSO investigator Wayne Findley, the victim, a former student of Lindle’s, told deputies he had a sexual relationship with Lindle between August 2008 and Feb. 17, 2009. The affidavit said the boy reported 40 to 50 instances in which he engaged in such conduct with Lindle in Greenwood and McCormick counties. The affidavits said three incidents occurred on Warner Road in Greenwood, two occurred at Economy Inn at 1215 Bypass 72 NE, one occurred at Lindle’s Donalds home and one sexual act occurred in the Kmart parking lot.

Underage Boys, Girl Produced Sex Video, Post It Online, Hilarity Does NOT Ensue

Kids:

The movie business may look glamorous, but take it from someone sorta involved in the media: shooting a video of your 15-year-old buddy involved in a sex act with a 13-year-old girl and then posting it online to an amateur porn site is NOT the best way to become the next Spielberg. More likely, it will get you labeled as a sex offender and you'll have to live in a van down by the river for the rest of your life. Does that sound like fun?

Here's more from KSFM on the latest "Wacky Things Our Kids Are Doing With Their Cell Phones":

A teen sex video has two 15-year-old boys in big trouble after one filmed the other engaging in an act with a 13-year-old girl. Police say it was consensual, but that doesn't mean it is legal.

Police say the alleged sex act was recorded on a cell phone at one of the teen's homes on February 9th. Three days later the teen that captured the act on his cell phone began showing and sharing the video with fellow students at Coleman Junior High. School officials were alerted to the recording and immediately involved the school resource officer. Investigators interviewed the half dozen or so students who saw the video and retrieved any copies that had been sent to student cell phones. Police believe that was limited to a few because of the file's size.

Just when officials thought they had contained the copies, Friday they learned that it had been posted to an internet website. The pornographic site allows individuals to upload their own videos. The prosecutor's office acted immediately to have it removed.

Lt. Brent Grill says the 15-year-old boy and 13-year-old girl engaged in the alleged act were aware that it was being recorded. However, because the girl is under the age of consent, the two boys are being charged with "employing or consenting to the use of a child in a sexual performance" which is a Class C felony in the state of Arkansas. They will be tried as juveniles.

Thanks to reader AH for the link!

Woman Found Passed Out at Intersection, Panties Pulled Down, Dress Pulled Up

From the description given by police, it sounds like this young lady might have mistaken her car for a moving toilet . . . right before she passed out at a green light. The Arizona University Wildcat Newspaper takes a long time to tell this story, but here are the basics:

• Cops get call of car stopped at intersection.
• Cops find driver passed out at green light
• Female driver has panties around her thighs, her dress pulled up and is not really responsive.
• Cops finally get her out the car and she admits to having "a few shots" before a concert and a few more afterwards.
• Refuses to take field sobriety test because she is getting her period and having cramps.
• Admits she probably shouldn't have driven, but didn't have money for a cab and didn't trust anyone else to take her home in that condition.
• Ultimately blows arrives at UA police station and blows .188 and .171 percent BAC, more than double the legal limit.
• Busted.

Here's part of the story from the Police Beat section of the Daily Wildcat: (our favorite quotes from the driver are in bold.)

Police responded to the area of East Speedway Boulevard and North Cherry Avenue after a SafeRide employee reported that a woman was passed out in her vehicle. When police arrived, they saw a stopped, running car at a green light, facing eastbound on Speedway.When the officer approached the car, he saw the woman was asleep, with her dress pulled up to her stomach and her underwear pulled down to her mid-thighs.
The officer knocked on the window several times. She did not respond, so he opened the door and began to shake her arm. Upon opening the door, he saw a three-quarters-empty bottle of Sailor Jerry Navy Rum on the floorboard of the passenger side. There was a strong odor of intoxicants coming from the woman and the car.
After about two minutes of trying to wake her up, she awoke, saying, "No, Clint, not right now."
The officer corrected her and introduced himself. The woman appeared to become more coherent. She was asked to pull up her underwear and pull down her dress. While doing this, she took her foot off of the brake and began to move forward. The officer put the vehicle in park to keep it from moving.
When the vehicle was stopped, the woman asked, "So what's that problem officer?"
Police asked her if she was OK and if she had been injured. The woman said she was fine. She was then asked if she knew where she was, to which she said, "Uh yeah, I'm coming back from the Slightly Stoopid concert."
Tucson Fire Department arrived to examine the woman. They determined that she was fine and left the scene.
Police asked the woman if she had been drinking. She said, "OK officer, I'll tell you the truth, yes I have been." The officer noted that her speech was slow and slurred.
The woman was taken to the median while an officer moved her car. The woman staggered to the area with another officer. She was then taken to a nearby parking lot for more questioning.
Police asked her if she would do a field sobriety test. She said, "No, please, my stomach hurts from cramping." She then continued to tell the officers that she wasn't feeling well because she had just started her period. When asked if she was refusing the sobriety test, she said "Honestly, I'm too messed up and too in pain to do any test right now."
The woman told officers that she had four shots of rum around 6 p.m. before going to the concert. After the show, she went to Chipotle and had a burrito and two more shots. She said that she did not remember leaving Chipotle.
She said, "Look officer, I know I shouldn't have drove home, but I didn't have money for a cab; and I don't trust anybody in my condition to drive me home, so I just decided to drive."
She did not remember passing out in the intersection or why her dress was up and her underwear pulled down. The officer asked her if she thought she did not remember because she drank too much. The woman said, "Well yeah officer, isn't that obvious?"

Married, Mother of Two Female Teacher Accused of Sex With Male Students

Yes, that's studentS, plural, and in a small town in Ohio, no less. Yet, people still seemed shocked that this is happening almost daily in this country. Is it that are teachers are so much looser this days or are the high school boys so sexually potent that they can't be resisted? Most like, it's the fault of the Internet. Here's more on the latest story from MSNBC:

A Rittman High School teacher was arraigned in Wayne County court Monday, accused of having sexual relationships with students. Erin Speicher, 34, (mug shot picture at right) of Orrville, was arrested at her home on Sunday. She was charged with sexual battery.

Rittman Police Chief Mike Burg said the investigation began when word about inappropriate conduct with male students came to light. Burg said all the alleged incidents took place at Speicher's home*. Police believe there were multiple incidents and multiple victims.

*Other reports we're reading say the alleged incidents happened at the school. No doubt the cops will get a complete report out at some point.

The real question is: who would play her in the Lifetime movie about this incident? I'm thinking Selma Blair, but that may just be because of the haircut. Make your suggestions in the comments section below.

High School Boy Accused of Using Cell Phone to Take Upskirt Pictures of Teacher, Greenbrier High School

The whole "sexting" and "female teachers having sex with underage boys" seemed to have spawned a whole new weird form of debauchery: underage boys using their cell phone cameras to take what are known as "upskirt" pictures of a female teacher. Our friends at TheSmokingGun.com have the full story along with mug shots and a picture of the alleged victim:

According to a Columbia County Sheriff's Office report, Pickard, 17, surreptitiously snapped photos of Greenbrier High School teacher Ellen Hotchkiss on Monday. After several students on Tuesday told a school safety officer that he was showing the photos around, the officer seized Pickard's phone. The 33-year-old Hotchkiss, pictured at right, examined the images and "identified her legs and underwear from the previous day."

Man Robs Gas Station, Runs Out of Gas

I see the tiny flaw in your plan there: If you're going to rob the gas station and make your getaway, probably best to buy your gas FIRST, then rob the place with a Bowie knife (I assume that's bigger than a Butter knife). Oh well, live and learn, right? Here's more from The Naples News:

The Charlotte County Sheriff's Office says 23-year-old David Eric Hampton used a Bowie knife to rob a Cape Haze gas station early Sunday. Deputies say Hampton pulled the 12-inch blade and demanded money. But when he left, a customer followed him and called 911. While deputies were looking for signs of the robber, a newspaper carrier told them that a man in a car matching the one from the robbery had run out of gas nearby. Hampton was arrested several hours after the robbery and charged with robbery with a weapon and loitering/prowling.

Thanks to reader Mike C. for the link!

Fourth Grade Teacher Allegedly Has Side Job as Prostitute, Used School Computer to Set Up Date With Cop

Once again, it appears we aren't paying our teachers enough . . . at least not in Bellafontaine, Ohio. We also apparently have to find out a way to keep women from using free ads on CraigsList to get paid for sex. Here's more from ABC News:

A fourth-grade teacher had a side job as a prostitute, and even skipped class after using a school computer to arrange an afternoon tryst at a motel, authorities said Wednesday.

Amber Carter, 35, left school early on Tuesday — taking half a sick day — and was arrested in a motel parking lot in Bellefontaine, where authorities had set up a sting operation. An anonymous e-mail was sent to the Logan County Sheriff's Department on Feb. 4 saying a local woman was posting cash-for-sex ads on the popular Web site Craigslist, Lt. Rob Bibart said.

Detectives found the ad and arranged Tuesday's meeting with Carter, he said. "It was done very subtly. We pulled up, I identified myself," he said. "I put her in an unmarked car and off we went."

Thanks to reader Gary S. for the tip on the story!

Fake Chicago Cop Makes Mistakes, Messes With Real Off-Duty Cops

Want to pretend to be a cop? Best to do that in the privacy of your own home (or at one of those "Pretend to Be a Cop" clubs everyone is talking about) because you never know who you might accidentally come in contact with during your, uh, "game." Maybe two REAL cops? here's more from the Chicago Sun Times:

Juan Quintero, 25, of the 4600 block of North Monticello Avenue, was charged with impersonating a police officer, a felony, and aggravated assault for pointing a phony gun at the officers, according to police. About midnight, Quintero, who was not wearing a police uniform but had a “dimestore badge’’ or phony star around his neck allegedly approached a man and a woman -- who are off-duty Chicago Police officers -- who walked to a vehicle and then got inside it near the intersection of North Leavitt Street and West Lawrence Avenue, police said.

For an unknown reason, Quintero allegedly yelled at them and threatened them, saying, “You guys have to get out of here.’’ When the officers asked who he was, Quintero allegedly said, “I am the Chicago Police, now get out of here,’’ and he allegedly pulled out a plastic toy gun that in the dark looked like a real semi automatic handgun, police said.

Quintero fled the scene when he saw the officers had real guns, but was picked up a little while later. My guess is they had some fun with him at the police station.

Man Calls Cops for Missing Child, They Find Pot Plants Instead

You know, I'd be the last person to tell you how to run your business. Especially if that business is growing pot . . . which I know nothing about. Really.

But, if you're going to set up a massive grow operation in your basement, you may want to think twice before inviting the police over to help find your missing 5-year-old. Especially when the kid is just hiding in a closet. Anyone else thing someone might have been too stoned to actually look for the kid? Just sayin'.

Yeah, that might put a crimp in the availability of pot in Warrensburg, NY for awhile. Here's more from Post Star:

Patrol officers were sent looking for a missing 5-year-old boy at a Warrensburg home Tuesday, and they found not only the child, but 68 marijuana plants growing in the basement, according to the Warren County Sheriff’s Office. Police arrested Joseph F. Weiler, 28, and Kenneth Weiler, 24, both of 4 Orton Drive, in connection with the incident. Joseph Weiler faces misdemeanor counts of endangering the welfare of a child and violating the state public health law for growing marijuana.

Kenneth Weiler is charged with misdemeanor counts of unlawful possession of marijuana and seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance for having propoxyphene, a narcotic drug he didn’t have a prescription for.

The child was found hiding in a closet.

Teresa Brock, Mother of the Year, Arrested for Pimping Own Daughter, Creepy Mug Shot

Pimping your own daughter? That's bad enough, but take a look at the mug shot of Teresa Brock, 45, of Dayton, Ohio. Let's hope the daughter is a little better looking.

Damn!

Here's more from MSNBC:

Police told WDTN that when undercover officers called Teresa Lynn Brock’s phone Jan. 29, she offered them her 19-year-old daughter for sex. Brock, 45, and her daughter, Danielle Kay Brock, were both arrested that same day. WDTN reported that officers also found heroin in Teresa Brock’s pocket. Teresa Brock is charged with promoting prostitution and possession of drugs. Her daughter also faces a charge for soliciting.

In a related story, Dayton police say they have yet to find the Ugly Stick Mrs. Brock was beaten with, but will continue searching for it.

Thanks to Gary Scherrer for the link!

Female Teacher, 49, Accused of Luring Boy, 14, to Hotel for Sex

Imagine you're a 14-year-old boy and you think you're getting text messages from a hot teenaged girl. She offers to meet you at a local hotel for sex and you show up, only to find a 49-year-old 8th grade English teacher. Yeah, that would make your day, wouldn't it? It's the latest female teacher sex scandal and it comes to us from Phoenix. At right, the mug shot of the accused, teacher Rosanna Brown.

Here are the details from AZFamily.com:

A Valley elementary school teacher has been arrested and is accused of having sex with one of her students. Rosanna Brown, 49, a teacher at Pastor Elementary School in south Phoenix is charged with having sex with a 14-year-old boy. The teacher is now in jail. Investigators say she sent text messages to the boy from her cell phone posing as a teenage girl to lure him to a hotel, where they had sex.
Investigators say she used texts to lure the boy to the hotel on Saturday. Mark Widmann, with the Roosevelt School District admits, "Any incident like this would be shocking." School officials call Brown a 28-year veteran with a good record. Widmann explains, “The teacher's been in the district since 1981, and there've been no other allegations."

Mom Arrested for Providing Kegs for Daughter's Party

This seems like a pretty straight forward story from Lincoln, Nebraska where mom Cheryl Beckner was charged with maintaining a disorderly house, 22 counts of contributing to the delinquency of a minor, and 2 charges of keg registration violation for tearing the registration tags off of the kegs. (Apparently, you can't do that in Nebraska.) When cops showed up at 1:30 am at Beckner's house, the found 20 underage drinkers in the house, ranging in age from 15 to 20. My favorite part of the story is at the end:

Officer Katie Flood said there was so much alcohol in the home that the breathalyzers used by officers recorded a .03 just from the air.

(KOLN KGIN)

Woman Accused of Sex With Underage Boys at Driving School

Apparently the art of having sex in the back seat of a car is NOT lost after all . . . it just needs to be taught by an "experienced hand" at a reputable driver's training school. Meet Tracy Conley, 39, of various addresses in Ohio who stands accused of having sex with not one, but two underage boys between the ages of 13 and 16 on Dec. 31, 2007, and again between May 15 and May 31, 2008. Not a lot of details on this arrest, other than the fact that the cops think that the "sexual contact" occurred not only at Conley's home, but also the B-Safe Driving Education school in Trenton, which just happens to be owned by Conley's parents.

According to Conley's parents, Tracy is not associated with the school in any way, and even if she was they make sure to have the upholstery in their driver's ed cars steam cleaned on a regular basis. (Okay, we made that last part up, but we bet you're hoping it's true if you had a kid in their clases!) At right, Tracy Conley's mug shot picture.

Does she look a little like actress Mary Kay Place to anyone else? (Dayton Daily News)

Teacher/Godmother Accused of Sex With Boy Starting When He Was 11!

Just when you think you've heard everything (when it comes to female teacher sex scandals) you come across a story like this: Carmina Lopez, taught the sixth grade at Nestor Elementary School (California) when she met a young boy in the class who was 11 at the time. Lopez eventually became so close to the boy and his family that his parents made her his godmother, a role that is supposed to provide spiritual guidance and moral support. Instead, cops say, the 32-year-old is accused of starting a sexual relationship with the lad starting almost four years ago when he was 11 and ending in early 2008 when the kid turned 15.
Oh and there's one other intersting item here: Lopez also has a 4-year-old son. The boy's father is supposedly an ex-boyfriend of hers, but someone may want to do some DNA testing. At right, a picture of Camina Lopez.
Here's more from Count on 2 News:

Carmina Lopez faces multiple counts of lewd acts with a child after an alleged relationship with her former 6th grade student.
Chula Vista police arrested Carmina Lopez, 32, Wednesday night in Middletown after a tip from Child Protective Services.
According to investigators, Lopez was a sixth-grade teacher at Nestor Elementary School when the sexual relationship began in 2004.
The victim was a member of her class, according to investigators.
Lopez faces a litany of criminal charges including 40 counts of lewd act with a child, 40 counts of unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor, continuous sexual abuse of a child, aggravated sexual assault of a child under 14 years of age, sexual battery, cruelty to a child, annoying or molesting a child under 18 years of age and 11 counts of failure to report child abuse when you are a mandated reporter.
The acts occurred at school, in Lopez’s home and in a car in both Chula Vista and San Diego because the suspect lived in both cities over the last four years, police said.

New Sexting Scandal Hits Michigan Sixth Grade Classroom

6th Graders?

6th Graders!

The "victims" of the latest sexting scandal (that's when teens send naked pictures to each other using their cell phones, a combination of "sex" and "texting") come from Herbison Woods School in DeWitt, Michigan (not far from the Dumbass Daily corporate headquarters). Apparently a sixth grade boy and girl exchanged "revealing pictures of themselves" and then, of course, the were passed around to other kids and then the adults found out. Here's more from WILX-TV in Lansing:

"We had several students inappropriately taking pictures and distributing them on cell phones," Superintendent Tina Templin said. Templin would not confirm the details of this case, but parents we talked to said two sixth graders...a girl and boy... took revealing pictures of themselves, sent them via picture text to each other, then shared them with friends.
"I guess I've heard about it happening in high school, maybe junior high , but sixth grade? That's pretty young for that to be happening," Steve McGiveron said. McGiveron has two kids at Dewitt High School. "Back in my day you would just look at Playboy under the bed, so it's nothing new," he said, "but I think technology has allowed it to become so much easier and widely accessible to people of all ages."
One parent with children at Herbison Woods said this is a growing problem and enforcement has got to start at home, so she's blocked picture texts from her kids' cell phones.
Parental involvement is imperative, Templin said, and that's why she sent a letter to every parent in the district. "I really wanted to inform the parents of the seriousness of the situation and also for their help with talking to the students," she said. Templin would not discuss punishment, except to say no students will be expelled. But parents tell Newsten the male "honor student" was suspended for five days while the young girl is still in school. "There would not be a double standard," Templin said. "We would apply the code of conduct evenly across the genders. There would not be discrimination happening."

Teacher Sex Scandal Update: Autumn Leathers Pleads Guilty to Sex With Boy, 15

Autumn Leathers.

Probably the best name EVER for a female teacher caught in a student-teacher sex scandal. Leathers used to be an English teacher at Mountain Ridge High School (Maryland). That is, until May of 2008 when she allegedly began a three-month relationship with the boy. Now she plead guilty to the charges and likely is heading to jail. Here's more from the Baltimore Sun:

A former high school English teacher from Frostburg has pleaded guilty to a sex offense with a 15-year-old male student. Autumn Lee Leathers, 25, pleaded guilty to one count of fourth-degree sex offense during a court hearing today in Cumberland.In return for her guilty plea, prosecutors dropped more serious charges, including child abuse and assault.The conviction carries a maximum penalty of a year in jail, a $1,000 fine and registration as a sex offender.

Sixty-Year-Old Sex Offender Arrested for Wearing Fake Breasts, Wig to Hang Out in Women's Restroom

Is it illegal for a man to want fake books and long hair? Well, it is it you were them to apparently disguise the fact that you are--in fact--a man, and you then hang out in a women's bathroom. Oh, and being a registered sex offender probably won't help you with the cops, either. here's more from the San Jose Mercury News:

Richard Rendler, 60, of San Jose, a registered sex offender, found that out on Friday in Campbell, when he was arrested at the PruneYard Shopping Center on misdemeanor loitering charges. Campbell Police Sgt. Dave Carmichael said Rendler was arrested after having been caught in the womens' restroom of an unnamed store for "several minutes.''
Police were tipped off to Rendler's whereabouts shortly before noon on Friday, when a witness called authorities to say a man was getting out of his car wearing fake breasts and a wig and carrying a purse. The witness saw the man near a bank and thought it was a little "weird'' to see a man wearing what seemed to be a disguise, Carmichael said.

Boy, 14, Dresses Up as Chicago Cop. Fools Officers for Five Hours!

Note to Chicago Residents: You can rest safe now, after your local police department spotted an imposter in their ranks and it only took five hours. Who was this master of disguise? Would you believe a 14-year-old boy? The good news is that the CPD claims that the lad "did not have a gun, never issued any tickets and didn't drive the squad car," during his shift. Well, I hope not! Here's more from WBBM:

A 14-year-old aspiring police officer donned a uniform, walked into a Chicago police station and managed to get an assignment - patroling in a squad car for five hours before he was detected, police said Sunday. The boy did not have a gun, never issued any tickets and didn't drive the squad car, Deputy Superintendent Daniel Dugan said.
Assistant Superintendent James Jackson said the ruse was discovered only after the boy's patrol with an actual officer ended Saturday. Officers noticed his uniform lacked a star that is part of the regulation uniform.
Police said they were investigating how the deception went undetected for so long in what they described as a serious security breach. Police said disciplinary steps are possible pending the outcome of the investigation. Police didn't identify the boy because of his age. He has been charged as a juvenile with impersonating an officer. Dugan said the boy looks older than 14 and was motivated by a desire to be an officer, not malice or "ill intent."