22-year-old Nicholas John Miller was arrested after wielding a knife and then carjacked a school bus in central Arkansas on Thursday morning. Miller reportedly took 11 elementary school students and their driver on a detour, which lasted about 10 miles before police ended it in Cabot, Jacksonville police Capt. Kenny Boyd said, as reported by CNN.
There were no Pinewood Elementary School students injured, the police Captain said.
The incident "began with Miller allegedly demanding a car from a woman in Jacksonville," Boyd explained.
"But [she] did not have one to give," Jacksonville police said in a statement.
The school bus then stopped nearb , and Miller proceeded to board the school bus armed with a knife. It was then the woman called police, who eventually found the bus and pursued, as it was heading north to Cabot, Arkansas, CNN reported.
Kelsey Eggers, a 17-year-old, recorded the chase with her cell-phone video, CNN reported. Police stopped the bus about 20 minutes after the hijacking began, according to news reports.
"We were able to get the bus stopped. The suspect was taken into custody, and nobody was injured," Boyd said.
Miller was charged with a "felony count of vehicle piracy, 12 felony counts of kidnapping, and two felony counts of aggravated assault," said April Kiser, the Jacksonville police spokeswoman
Elsie Miller, the hijacker's grandmother expressed "surprise" that her grandson committed the act, CNN reported.
