Posted: May 28, 2021 6:00 AM AT | Last Updated: May 28
The minister of social development is asking for permanent guardianship of a 16-year-old boy who has been in the minister’s temporary custody since July 7, 2019.(CBC)
At age 15, he ran away from his group home, stole a school bus and led Fredericton police on a city-wide chase that ended with a spike belt.
That was in September 2019 near the end of a dangerous summer, when the boy accrued 14 criminal charges while living in a group home.
It wasn t the first time he absconded with a school bus. He tried it at least three other times and even managed to drive one bus to Moncton then Sussex before being found by the RCMP.