Police: 3 boys pushing stalled car found with 2 guns, ammo
Police say they found two guns and a 50-round magazine when they stopped to help three boys pushing a stalled car.
Police say they found two guns and a 50-round magazine when they stopped to help three boys pushing a stalled car.
Police say they found two guns and a 50-round magazine when they stopped to help three boys pushing a stalled car.
Police say they found two guns and a 50-round magazine when they stopped to help three boys pushing a stalled car.
The incident happened at about 6:20 p.m. Monday in Pleasant Prairie.
According to police, an officer on patrol saw the kids pushing a car in the 11400 block of 39th Avenue.
As the officer stopped to help the boys, he said he noticed them "momentarily walk away from the vehicle" and into a nearby yard.
They then returned to the car that had run out of gas.
The boys, ages 11, 12 and 13, were all from Zion, Illinois, and said they ran out of gas.
No adults were found in the vicinity of the boys or the car.
The officer said while conducted a protective search of the boys, he found the 13-year-old was possessing a loaded gun.
The boy told the officer it was a BB gun, officers said.
"It was not a BB gun. It was a 9mm handgun," Police Chief David Smetana told WISN 12.
Police said the 13-year-old struggled with the officer but was placed into custody.
"Once in custody, the 13-year-old made a threat to the arresting officer's safety," investigators said.
Police said while the officers searched the area, they found a backpack in the nearby yard that they believe the boys had momentarily visited.
In the bag, police said they found another loaded handgun and a loaded 50-round magazine for a gun.
Officers said they also found additional rounds of ammunition for the guns in the vehicle.
The 13-year-old was booked into juvenile detention and held on submitted charges of possession of a firearm by a juvenile adjudicated delinquent, battery or threats to law enforcement and resisting/obstructing.
His name was not released.
The two other juveniles were released to their parents.
"This is still one of the those incidents that kind of shocks you a little bit," Smetana said. "Had the situations changed, had the circumstances been a little bit different, it could have ended up in a regrettable tragedy for the kids and anybody else who came upon them."
The car reported stolen from Kenosha.
Police said it was a rental.
They said the boys were headed back to Illinois when the car ran out of gas.
The man who rented the car told investigators he left his guns and ammunition in it.
Police said they determined they were all legally owned.
No other details have been released.