--- description: A swap any good peacenik would approve of title: Boy Steals Grandma's Guns and Trades Them for Marijuana: Police image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Newsfeed](/tag/time-section-newsfeed/) ## Newsfeed Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Boy Steals Grandma's Guns and Trades Them for Pot by [Sam Frizell](/author/sam-frizell/) ## Sam Frizell Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Dec 17, 2014 1:24 PM CUT by [Sam Frizell](/author/sam-frizell/) ## Sam Frizell Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Dec 17, 2014 1:24 PM CUT It’s a story as American as apple pie: a 14-year-old boy steals his grandmother’s guns and trades them for marijuana. Sheriff’s investigators say that’s what happened in Sacramento County, California, where a Missouri boy staying with his grandmother allegedly took a sledgehammer to her safe, took her two guns inside, and drove off with her car Monday night, the [local ABC affiliate reports](http://www.news10.net/story/news/local/eldorado-hills/2014/12/16/boy-swaps-grandmothers-guns-for-pot/20487275/ "undefined"). Amazingly, the grandmother, who is a bus driver for the local school district, saw the boy driving her car around town the next morning in the middle of her shift. Unable to chase him down because she was driving a school bus full of children, she called the police, who arrested him. \[[_ABC_](http://www.news10.net/story/news/local/eldorado-hills/2014/12/16/boy-swaps-grandmothers-guns-for-pot/20487275/ "undefined")\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3637393/boy-grandma-guns-marijuana/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3637393/boy-grandma-guns-marijuana/"},"headline":"Boy Steals Grandma's Guns and Trades Them for Pot","datePublished":"2014-12-17T13:24:59.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:15:24.282Z","description":"A swap any good peacenik would approve of","url":"https://time.com/3637393/boy-grandma-guns-marijuana/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Crime"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Sam Frizell","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/sam-frizell/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3637393/boy-grandma-guns-marijuana/","name":"Boy Steals Grandma's Guns and Trades Them for Pot"}}]}] ```