UPDATED at 1:23 p.m.
Tacoma police arrested a 14-year-old girl Tuesday night after she allegedly drove a stolen vehicle and assaulted and threatened an officer.
Pierce County prosecutors charged the teen today with unlawful possession of a stolen vehicle, third-degree assault, felony harassment, making a false or misleading statement to a public servant, resisting arrest and no valid operator’s license. She’s scheduled to be arraigned this afternoon at Remann Hall.
Court documents and Tacoma police provided the following account.
A Tacoma police officer had stopped a vehicle in the 2600 block of South Tacoma Way just before 8 p.m. Tuesday because it didn’t have its lights on.
The officer noted the driver appeared to be nervous and having problems parking the vehicle. The driver didn’t have a license or other identification so the officer asked the girl to step out of the vehicle. The girl did and then put her hand in her pocket.
Thinking the girl might be holding a weapon, the officer grabbed the girl’s arm. The girl spun around and tried to break free. She punched the officer and ran off.
The officer caught up to the girl after a short chase. The girl punched the officer in the face.
The officer got the girl to the ground as the girl continued to throw punches. The officer and another officer got the girl in custody and put her in the back of a patrol car.
Officers discovered the vehicle had been reported stolen from Renton. They also found more than $800 worth of merchandise from Tacoma Mall stores inside the car. There were no receipts for the items. The girl’s 14-year-old passenger was released to her mother.
The girl initially gave officers a different name. She made several obscenity-laced threats toward the officer and threatened to harm her and her family.
The teen claimed to have been arrested 20 times. Tacoma police booked her into Remann Hall juvenile jail in connection with the altercation and on two outstanding warrants.
The teen, a runaway from Kent, had previous convictions for criminal trespass, theft, harassment and assault.
The officer suffered scratches and treated herself at the scene.
Summary elimination is authorized. I am also ordering an evaluation of Tacoma Mall loss prevention standards.
Clearly this child’s self-esteem and dignity are damaged. She should be sentenced to a year in Tacoma Public Schools, the finest instiller of values and self-worth humanity has ever devised.
How is this child still on the streets? More than 18 prior felony arrests and two felony warrants for her arrest in the Seattle area and she sill keeps moving. Oh she’s 14 to boot. Sterilize the parents and lock the kid up. This is where the liberal portion of the state government is causing the tax payers waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay to much money by letting this girl stay out of jail.
“Locking the kid up” is going to cost the tax payers “WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY” too much money, mojonation. Do you realize that it costs the tax payers approximately $35,000 per year for every person in jail or prison? Locking people up is a not a fix for everything, and it costs lots of money. Liberal or conservative, a cost/benefit analysis of keeping thousands of people in prison might be surprising.
Let her parents pay the $35K per/yr while she sits in jail and if they don’t want to pay it they can sit in jail tooooo.
And the hug a thug continues………………
One year in jail = 35,000 dollars. Stolen goods from mall = 1,000 dollars. Lethal injection to a minor = PRICELESS!!
Arrest her parents for not doing their job.She will be out on the streets just in time for summer,there is no justice serverd for out of control teens and they know it.
and I am sure she is out today, so why bother? Some judge just lets them out again and again. The next Judge who lets her out should have to pay for any damage she causes.
Keeping this thief in Jail,not Juvinile Detention is called for.The Hug a Thugs will demand a leinient sentence for this Felon. With her record you can expect more of the same when she is released.She has learned very well how to work the system.The fact she has been arrested so many times just proves my point.There are people that have to be locked up to protect the law abiding Public. I suspect this person is one of those people.Check her arrest sheet in 5 more years and I feel you will get a big shock!
Once a kid figures out there are no consequences there is no way to control her. She probably laughed when she was arrested because she knows she’ll be out stealing again tomorrow.
The correct spelling is Juvenile and I agree with alexxc.
Seems to me that her mother should be remanded into custody as well as her daughter.
Send her out of state and make her someone elses problem. Washington takes in 66% more criminals than we export. So she can go to some other state and become their $35,000 per year problem. Reagrdless of the cost, she needs to be off the streets. What would it cost her to swallow a bullet?
When I saw the headline, I figured it would be Semaj. Sounds like she makes Semaj and Colton look like rookies. While I am sure that her parents (probably more like parent) have alot to do with her actions, some kids will get in trouble no matter what the parents do, while others will run the straight and narrow as latchkey kids. Maybe jail is not the right place for this kid. Better off to let a citizen put a stop to her ways while she is breaking into their home. That tends to take the repeat out of repeat offenders.
What this poor girl really needs is a good nanny! Thank God for Washington (The Nanny) State!
Mojo and Gonesailing, you are way out of line. No doubt the girl needs to be punished and the parents need close supervision, but to suggest the deliberate murder of a minor is not funny. It is sick.
I agree with the theme of sterilize her, her parents, and then lock her up and charge her family for the costs. Should be done more often…..
Since we do not know the facts about her mother, and we don’t even know if she lives with a mother and father, let’s please refrain from blaming them for this child. Sometimes good parents have children who just don’t turn out to be law abiding.
Before judment is passed on the parents, let specialists determine if something is wrong with her brain (such as frontal lobe damage which impairs judgment.
We just do not know. Pharmaceutical companies encourage parents to drug kids and these drugs are now known to damage developing brains permanently. Again, we do not have all the facts. I know someone will call either an extreme liberal or socialist as that is the norm, however compassion not only serves yourself well, it serves the community well.
Bullets are cheap. She’ll be getting hers eventually.
retiredssg — If you think this poor little cherub just needs some loving discipline you go right ahead and take responsibility for her.
I’m not sure which is more disturbing. The actions of this kid….or the comments from some of you!
She will no doubt have five or six little angels just like her.
Ha Ha I heard this on the online police scanner last night.
Dcr628- These are just comments and should be takin like so. Meanwhile if you were on fire this little girl wouldn’t even p on ya. So yeah some of us are a bit mad that a criminal 14 yr old is running the streets. Bad Karma is bound to catch up with this criminal and that will be one less 14yr old felony committing drop out tax dollar wasting son of a …you get it
Where is the compassion? What if this girl was a victim? She is acting out and on a one way road to trouble true. I hope an intense counselor can try to help her. She doesn’t know anything at this age but needs to be taught. To have any felonies at that age is not a good start. She will regret if she lives to. I hope people look at the bigger picture of rehabilitating smartly and giving someone a second chance in a thriving environment. We need jail for a period of time and then resources to transition.
And there are good parents that have bad kids. They can’t always be held responsible. Learning how to cope, what normal is, and getting to the root of the problem is what is needed. Not quick permanent fixes.
I hope the car got back to the owner in a drivable state. Her parents might be proud to see their darling in the papers? Maybe they scrapbook.
She doesn’t know anything at this age? She knows how to steal a car!
I think the cops have a lot of self control !!!!!!!!
If that young POS hit me I think I would have lost it.
ruled — You are clueless. This little girl is already a hardened career criminal. I give her no odds of rehabilitation. Every penny we waste on hopeless cases like this is a penny not going to a kid with the potential to be an asset to society.
I think there may be something to the earlier comments about pharmaceutical companies. Who knows what kind of long term effects young kids are going to face becuase of all the chemicals floating around in their young brains.
In today’s culture of lazy parents, lazy teachers, and a lazy society on a constant, fruitless search for the easy way out, no one takes the time or bother to actually discipline a kid.
Combine that with today’s entitlement culture and guaranteed, we are going to see more cases like this.
Generation by generation, we are steadily returning to caves. I’ve watched our culture go deeper down the hole every decade for a number of decades now.
DONT JUDGE MY DAUGHTER SHE GOT HOOKED ON METH CUZ I SMOKED IT DURING PREGNANCY
With their idol worship of commercialism and materialism todays
youth will be our destruction rather then our hope.
This will only end up one way- when her life of crime violently ends, either by her shooting some innocent soul, or by that soul having a gun prior and shooting her first.
What a waste of a life.
Wrapper98439 – my first thought was – Hey – A girlfriend for Semaj! (Can you imagine the havoc they could wreak together on dates?)
Wrapper98439 – we’ll know for certain if it comes out that her name is something along the lines of Yram, Eiluj, Ynaffit, or Auqinahs.
CINDARELLACITIZEN,Who cares how much it costs? and what do you suggest,counseling? Why dont we add up all the money she has already cost us taxpayers,and victims of crimes,police work etc…She needs to be locked up tight for a couple years,if the jails and prisons were ran as a unpleasant,miserable stay, the way jail should be,it would only cost about $3,000 per year,but do you think us taxpayers would see a difference or pay any less? NOT!! SO LOCK THE CRIMINALS UP!