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Sheriff’s deputies are used to following vehicles on wild pursuits, but the person behind the wheel during a Monday morning chase was far from the usual suspect — it was a 12-year-old boy accused of taking his parents’ truck on a joyride to school, authorities said.

Sacramento County sheriff’s deputies responded to a call shortly before 7 a.m. regarding a boy who had taken his parents’ vehicle to his former school on Caymus Drive in south Sacramento. He knocked over several traffic cones by the school and then drove away, according to the Sheriff’s Office.

Deputies attempted to stop the vehicle but said the boy refused, leading authorities on a pursuit through the surrounding neigh

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