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BRANDON — After being released Wednesday following charges for breaching a recognizance, a 12-year-old boy accused of crashing a car into a Brandon city bus found himself in front of the court again Thursday — for breaching the same conditions.

Crown attorney Kaley Tschetter told provincial court the boy was arrested less than an hour after he was released.

The boy is alleged to have taken a stolen vehicle for a joyride Oct. 6 — ultimately running a red light and smashing into the side of a Brandon Transit bus, forcing it off the road and into the front of a building.

The accused cannot be named under the Youth Criminal Justice Act, but he has lengthy history of criminal incidents, as chronicled previously by the Free Press.

His extensive rap sheet includes arson, car thefts, possession of drugs and weapons, robberies, assaults, uttering threats and a near-fatal stabbing. In each case, the boy couldn’t be charged because the Youth Criminal Justice Act doesn’t apply to children under 12.

The boy, who could barely see over the side of the prisoner’s box when sitting down, scoffed as the Crown read out his bail conditions.

He is due back in court in November.

— Brandon Sun