11 year old arrested for break-in

TACOMA — A Tacoma boy who stole a car and talked his way onto airline flights as a 9-year-old is in trouble again.
Semaj Booker, now 11, was arrested in connection with a weekend residential break-in. On Monday, a judge ordered him held in juvenile detention until at least July 17.

Pro-tem Judge John Hill also set that date for a hearing to determine whether the boy has the mental capacity to know right from wrong.

Pierce County prosecutors have charged the boy with one count of residential burglary, one count of third-degree malicious mischief and one count of making a false or misleading statement to a public servant.

Prosecutors said Semaj was arrested early Saturday.

The boy has twice made national headlines by traveling to Seattle-Tacoma International Airport alone and talking his way through security, most recently in May. In January 2007, he managed to make his way onto a flight from Seattle to Phoenix and from there to San Antonio. He said he wanted to be with his grandfather in Texas.

The day before his flight to Texas, the boy took a car and led police on a high-speed chase in Lakewood, near Tacoma. A judge convicted the boy of car theft last summer but said he wouldn't have to go to juvenile detention if he stayed out of trouble for a year.

After his May 27 adventure at the airport, a Superior Court judge told him to stay out of trouble and gave him another year of probation on the earlier offen

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Comment by cye young on July 9, 2008 at 1:02pm: man he is a brave nigga shit....damn that nigga got heart...they need to talk to that boy or whoop his ass shit he might be the next great black.......or the next AMERICAN GANGSTA LOL.........SHIT SOMEBODY GET AT HIM

Comment by MUNCHY on July 9, 2008 at 5:33pm: that lil nigga a goon

Comment by jumpoff king on July 9, 2008 at 6:54pm: remeber that name....10 years from now

Comment by JUAN on July 10, 2008 at 11:18pm: The yungin wildin. He gonna be a beast when he grown.

Comment by 100%OFFICIAL on July 11, 2008 at 2:29am: If his lil ass lives 10 years from now. Same niggas we read about on this bitch every day. Dying or going jail for the dumbest shit. He is just a younger version. Shit there isn't stories on here about no GOONS with a happy ending. Locked down or Laid down 4 life. That's sad but that's how it is.