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Teen charged with running over N.C. deputy with stolen vehicle

Christine Boush, Staff Writer
Spartanburg Herald Journal

Silvia Salgado woke up to a mother’s worst nightmare Saturday morning.

Her son, Jose Luis Pineda, 16, had been charged with hitting a Polk County, N.C., sheriff’s deputy with her minivan -- the one the teenager had stolen while she was sleeping.

“I didn’t think about hiding my keys,” Salgado said through an interpreter. “I never expected him to do something like that.”

Pineda, of Spartanburg, is charged with assault with a deadly weapon on a government official, no operator’s license, driving while impaired and fleeing to elude police ...Full Story