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On Sunday night, a 16-year-old boy in the Ottawa-area town of Eganville allegedly stole a 2002 Chevy Avalanche to go pick up his 13-year-old girlfriend in Pembroke, a 30-minute drive to the north.

Two stolen cars, three police chases, a hail of gunfire and one international border later, the couple’s 24-hour crime spree was brought to an end in a river outside Kingfield, Maine, more than 500 kilometres from where they started.

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“It was a mini Bonnie and Clyde thing,” Franklin County Sheriff Scott Nichols told Waterville, Maine’s Morning Sentinel on Tuesday.

As of Tuesday night, none of the dozens of U.S. and Canadian officers who spent the holiday Monday chasing down the minors had any idea “what their intentions were, or where they were headed,” according to a statement by Maine law enforcement.

It was on the western edge of Ottawa early Monday morning that the pair first caught the attention of law enforcement when they were seen driving the Chevy Avalanche down a rural stretch of Carling Avenue, repeatedly swerving the vehicle into the opposing lane.