(12 year old) Amateur Sleuth Jessica Maple Saw Clues Police Missed and Confronts Robbers

ABC ^ | August 20, 2011 | ALYSSA NEWCOMB

[Oztrich Boy]

And they would have gotten away with it, too, if it hadn’t been for that meddling kid!

[Oatka]

An interesting comment from the site. Does this apply only in Georgia or is this the norm?

Unfortunately she said that the police had not made an arrest yet. The reason for this is that it is no longer a crimincal case. By law, it is automatically demoted to a civil case when the family confronted the burgler directly. When you intervene in a police investigation (regardless of how slow they are) and have direct interaction with the criminal, you legally place the police out of jurisdiction for the case. I know, I made this mistake before.

[freedumb2003]

>>This kid was no Encyclopedia Brown<<

Holy MOLEY what a reference!

I read every single Encyclopedia Brown book cover to cover. He and “Danny Dunn” were my heroes in my childhood!

Thanks for the great memories that rushed in :)

[fnord]

“Junior District Attorney camp”

wow, this sounds like a bad, bad idea

it also sounds like the worst summer camp ever

[HiTech RedNeck]

Unless, I suppose, you’re fortunate and armed enough to make a citizen’s arrest of the burglar, calling the cops right away and turning the culprit over to them. Assuming there’s a live burglar to turn over....