i found these two articles off cnn today at work:
ORANGE BEACH, Alabama (AP) -- Police who chased a car for
miles along a highway at speeds up to 100 mph said the driver was
drunk, hardly a rarity in this resort town. But there was more: When
they looked inside the flipped vehicle with guns drawn, they found an
11-year-old girl at the wheel.
"You go up there thinking it's a felon you're dealing with," assistant police Chief Greg Duck said.
The girl, who was slightly injured in the crash, is now charged with
driving under the influence of alcohol, speeding, reckless endangerment
and leaving the scene of an accident. Duck said she sideswiped another
vehicle during the roughly 8-mile chase.
The chase began around
10:30 p.m. Tuesday when a patrol officer near the Florida line saw the
car speeding west along a beach highway, Duck said. When the officer
flicked on his lights, the driver sped up. The girl rolled the car just
inside the Gulf Shores city limit.
Duck said the girl, whose
name was not released because of her age, told police she was on her
way to pick up her sister at a concert.
Investigators found no alcohol in
the car but believe the girl drank before getting behind the wheel of
the car, which belongs to relatives.
Duck declined to release
the girl's blood alcohol level but said a blood test at the hospital
showed it was higher than .02, the legal limit for minors
ENID, Oklahoma (AP) -- Detectives arrested a 12-year-old
girl and her 10-year-old sister for allegedly abducting their
neighbor's 1-year-old son and demanding $200,000 for his return.
 Authorities escort two sisters, ages 10 and 12. The girls are accused of abducting their neighbor's baby.
Brandon Wells was back at home Thursday night, hours after intruders
broke into his family's residence and took him while his mother, Sheila
Wells, slept, police said.
"I've been doing this 18 1/2 years,
and this is the first time I know of when a 10- and a 12-year-old
kidnapped a 1-year-old," said police Capt. Dean Grassino. "It
definitely ranks up there with the unusual crimes."
The
siblings, who were not identified because of their ages, are accused of
sneaking into Wells' home at about 5:30 a.m., taking Brandon and
leaving a ransom note.
"If you want to see your son again then
you won't call police and report him missing and you will leave
$200,000 on the sofa tonight and we will return your son back safe,"
the note read, according to police.
The note was signed, "the kidnappers."
The plan began to unravel when the girls' mother saw them with the
child, police said. They told their mother they had found the boy on
the corner, police said. Watch how two preteens snatched the sleeping toddler »
As the girls' mother tried to find Sheila Wells' telephone number, the
12-year-old returned to Wells' residence and told her it was the
younger sister who was responsible for the abduction, Grassino said.
Wells immediately retrieved her child from the girls' home and police were called, Grassino said.
Wells said she knew the girls and had banned the 10-year-old girl from her home a few weeks ago, but did not say why.
The girls appeared in Garfield
County District Court on Thursday afternoon and were taken to Community
Intervention Center for juveniles. They have not been formally charged.
"I know they're so young, but they need to learn from their mistakes," Wells said.
what is wrong with young girls these days? or just kids in general
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