ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (WFLA) — A 12-year-old boy who has been arrested more than 20 times was arrested again on Monday. St. Petersburg police say he stole a car from an 89-year-old man. 
 
 Raymond Raftery, the victim, had pulled in for gas at 4890 22 Ave. S. in St. Petersburg when a 12-year-old on a bicycle came over and told Raftery he needed air in one of this tires. 
 
 “He told me I had a low tire, and I looked at the driver side and he said, ‘No, it’s on the other side,'” Raftery said. 
 
 When Raftery walked over to the other side of the car, the 12-year-old made his move. “I looked up. He’s off the bike, into the car and gone,” Raftery explained. 
 
 The 12-year-old stole the car and wrecked it in a collision later. 
 
 “I felt kind of dumb after, but I’m saying it’s in the middle of the day, broad daylight, kid’s 12 years old. Who would suspect? I would now. I didn’t then,” Raftery said. 
 
 Detectives found security camera video of the young car thief in action. They recognized the 12-year-old because they have arrested him 20 times before. 
 
 “Most of these have been auto theft. He’s had burglary charges. He had robbery charges,” said Mike Puetz with the St. Petersburg Police Department. 
 
 News Channel 8 talked with the suspect’s older brother. He insisted the 12-year-old is not a criminal. “He’s a good kid,” the brother said. “I kind of feel bad for the 89-year-old.” ||||| If it were not FILMED, no one would BELIEVE IT | Videos you will not believe 
 
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 43,942,658 views ||||| ST. PETERSBURG — A 12-year-old boy was arrested Monday afternoon after St. Petersburg police said he stole a car from an 89-year-old man last week — and officers said this was not the boy's first alleged vehicle theft. 
 
 Raymond Raftery of Gulfport was pumping gas at 3890 22nd Ave. S on Friday morning when police said the boy, on a bicycle, told Raftery that one of his tires was low on air. 
 
 When Raftery got out to check his Toyota, police said, the boy made his move. 
 
 "He jumped off the bike and into the car and was gone in 30 seconds," Raftery said Tuesday morning. 
 
 "He was good," Raftery said. "I felt kind of dumb afterward, but it was broad daylight, and he was a kid. If it was an adult, I would have been more suspicious, but you never know — you live and you learn." 
 
 The boy was spotted by detectives Monday. He was arrested on a charge of grand theft motor vehicle. Authorities said the boy, who was not identified because of his age, has been arrested more than 20 times. Raftery wasn't injured and said he was glad no one was hurt during the incident. He got his car back, but it wasn't in the best condition. 
 
 "I think he got into a car accident," Raftery said. "He probably couldn't even reach the pedals."
– It might seem difficult to discern the thief in a grainy surveillance video, but police didn't have much trouble, per WFLA. After a boy made off with an 89-year-old man's vehicle in St. Petersburg, Fla., last week, police arrested a suspect they know pretty well: a 12-year-old who'd been arrested more than 20 times before, mostly for auto theft. Police say the boy told Raymond Raftery the air in his tires was low. When he got out to check, the boy "jumped off the bike and into the car and was gone in 30 seconds," Raftery tells the Tampa Bay Times. "I felt kind of dumb afterward, but it was broad daylight, and he was a kid." Police say the boy, who subsequently crashed the vehicle, also has burglary and robbery arrests on his record.