SEARSPORT, Maine — Two 14-year-olds who reportedly ran away from home last week may be facing charges for failing to stop for police officers who were searching for them, Searsport Police Chief Dick LaHaye said Monday.
The boyfriend and girlfriend were reported missing by their families on Thursday evening, and spent the night in the woods near the Trundy Road in Searsport. They told police later that the bugs weren’t too bad, the chief said.
“Everyone was concerned in that situation, because you don’t know what they’re thinking,” LaHaye said.
He did not identify the teens, who are classmates at Searsport District High School. Evidently they decided to run away from home because their parents did not want them seeing each other, he told the BDN last week.
Around midday on Friday, LaHaye received two different phone calls alerting him to the fact that two young people were walking in the vicinity of Trundy Road. He went looking for them there and did spot them — but they were not ready to be found.
“I confronted both of them, and the girl ran into the woods,” he said.
The boy waited on the road near his cruiser until the girl came out of the woods.
“As soon as they were together, they took off running again,” LaHaye said.
The two were on the move near the Sprague Energy facility, and eventually the chief caught them on the beach near Hamilton’s Seine loft on U.S. Route 1.
“I said, ‘OK, guys. It’s over,’” the chief recounted.
Police separated the young couple and then spent the rest of the afternoon interviewing them and their parents, first individually and then together. LaHaye said he is mulling over whether to charge them with failure to stop for a police officer.
the girl was probably trying to get pregnant to get on MTV
dhs should be alerted both children should be remanded to state custody til the age of 16. the parents of the teens should be fined the cost of search and rescue of the teens and 30 days in jail each.
Wow, that escalated quickly…
this isn’t Massachusetts or New Jersey…
so i’m guessing you’re wrong.
If you are referring to the alleged pregnancy pact on the North Shore, that was a figment of a journalist’s overheated imagination. Girls got pregnant for the same reason that they always have, for attention, to have someone to love them, because they had unprotected sex with a boy that promised to pull out before impregnating her, etc. I was a social worker for the Commonwealth of MA for years, and had a number of teenage girls on my caseload over the years. Girls with goals and some level of self-esteem tended not to want to have children at an early age, and most of the girls did not have children. There were two exceptions, one already pregnant when I got the case, and one girl who thought that her boyfriend would marry her if she got pregnant. I never lived lived or worked in New Jersey and don’t watch any of the “reality” shows, so I cannot respond to that.
That’s ridiculous. In fact, that’s totally ridiculous.
And who is going to take care of the kids while their parents are in jail for 30 days? Who is going to make sure that they have supervision and a stable roof over the heads and food in their stomachs? Think about the repercussions of this suggestion.
i stated that in my comment…the kids would be remanded to state custody
How about a good talking-to by a person knowledgable about the risks of such behavior, and some mandated community service? Give them a chance to clear their records later. Please put your axe away, mr/ms reckoning.
That is the most ridiculous comment I have read in a long time. Someone is a little too full of themselves. “I am Maines reckoning”? Not a bit arrogant are we?
Wow, and then we can start concentration camps for all the poor people, homeless people, people in drug rehab, people with mental health problems, all of it. That sounds like a great idea, we can just euthanize them and be done with these horrible kids! That will make the world a better place, you betcha!! Oh, btw, since I know your probably not too clever, that was sarcasm. Lets go spend all that money locking them in jail or in a foster care system, lets make our taxes even HIGHER! I know people love to come up with fascist ideas like this, and they think they are just the sharpest knife in the drawer, but unfortunately, your great idea costs more in the long term and plus, this is America. You want to live in a place like that, main land China, North Korea and Cuba all come to mind as places that you would just love! With the attitude you have you would probably be in heaven, right?
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Two dumb kids in “love”. Slap em on the wrist and move on. Go out and catch real criminals.
Kids that age don’t understand that they are not living in the same world I grew up in, where you could mostly trust your neighbors and other people’s parents looked out for you if yours were unavailable. The world is a lot less safe for runaways, and a case could be made for the rest of us as well. It is dangerous to take off where your parents don’t know where you are or what you are facing. They are back home but there need to be consequences for their behavior. I am not a fan of locking kids up unless they commit a violent offense. But there needs to be some kind of response to the behavior, or it will happen again, and again, and again.
Alert:
Some guy named Samuel Clements tells me that two white boys and a black are headed down the Mississippi on a raft. Obviously these children need to be arrested, booked, and sent to the nearest reform school.
Jeez what a world!
They were found and safe…perhaps let the parents take over from here. Hopefully they can come to some agreement on the ability to see each other…if not there’s probably a good reason for it not to happen…either way the parents should be able to set the consequences and see that they are carried out not the legal system for a 14 year old run away.
Wow,must be a slow news day.Dosent anyone remember being a kid?Yeah,14 is kinda young,but thats the target age on tv and in advertising. Sheesh.let the parents deal with it..Its their business,not ours…
Do we train our local police officers to do ANYTHING besides arresting or issuing summonses? They could be playing such a positive role. . . .
Children behave. That’s what they say when we’re together
But what would they say? if they only knew..
And so we’re running just as fast as we can
Holding onto one another’s hand…..
Nothing has changed except the rules of being grounded.