MINNEAPOLIS (AP) A 9-year-old boy who evaded airport security and stowed away on a flight from Minneapolis to Las Vegas has also stolen a car and sneaked into a water park, and he is known to child protection investigators, according to a confidential county government memo.
In the email obtained by the Star Tribune (http://bit.ly/1hzc1lU ), Janine Moore, area director of the Hennepin County Human Services and Public Health Department, said child protection staffers have conducted four assessments of the boy's family since December and that he is a "challenging" child.
"The reports have been inconsistent and there have been no injuries to the child; however, there is a pattern of behavior," she wrote in the email to county administrators and commissioners marked "private data."
Moore said she couldn't comment when reached by The Associated Press on Tuesday and would not say whether the memo had been quoted accurately.
The email said that the boy's mother works at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport where he sneaked onto the plane without a boarding pass or ID Thursday. The Delta Air Lines flight crew realized midflight that he wasn't supposed to be there, and Las Vegas authorities took him into custody when the plane landed.