Boy Arrested For Opening Christmas Present Early

A fed-up mother had her 12-year-old son arrested for rummaging through his great-grandmother's things and opening his Christmas present early.

The mother called police after learning her son had disobeyed orders, opened his present early and then repeatedly taken the Game Boy from its hiding place to play it. He was taken to the police station in handcuffs and held until his mother picked him up.

"My grandmother went out of her way to lay away a toy and paid on this thing for months", said the boy's mother, Brandi Ervin. "It was only to teach my son a lesson. He's been going through life doing things... and getting away with it."

The boy's case will be presented to officials who will decide what happens to him. His mother hopes he can attend a program that will scare him straight.

"It's not even about the Christmas present," she said. "There's no need for him to act this way. I'd rather call myself than someone else call for him doing something worse than this".

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