The Clackamas County sheriff's office says it received a call from the boy's mother reporting the boy and the pickup missing from their home in Damascus, Ore., near Portland.
An alert went out, and the eager young driver was safely stopped by a Lewis County sheriff's deputy.
Detective Jim Strovink says the case will be referred to juvenile authorities for possible prosecution of unauthorized use of a motor vehicle and driving without a license.
Strovink says the mother didn't do anything wrong in letting the boy drive in the driveway because that's private property.
