Boys, ages 7 and 9, seen in armed standoff receiving assistance from deputies

A New Mexico sheriff's bureau is defending its determination not to apprehension 2 young boys, ages 7 and 9, seen successful drone footage successful an equipped standoff with deputies. 

Video released Thursday by the Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office (BCSO) shows the 2 boys dressed successful Minecraft and Star Wars-themed pajamas lasting down a covered air-conditioning portion and carrying a loaded handgun. 

In the astir six minutes of footage shared, the children are seen looking astir arsenic if they are trying to debar detection and capture. Eventually, the boys are surrounded and detained by deputies.  

"This lawsuit illustrates the analyzable intersection of juvenile crime, intelligence health, and nationalist safety," Sheriff John Allen said successful a statement. "We are taking important steps to adjacent work gaps and grow our quality to enactment with juveniles progressive successful firearms oregon convulsive crimes."

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The boys, ages 7 and 9, instrumentality turns holding the gun. (Bernalillo County Sheriff's Office)

The incidental took spot connected Feb. 16 but was highlighted connected Thursday portion BCSO showcased the enactment of its behavioral wellness portion and "a caller inaugural designed to code captious work gaps successful the community," according to a property release. 

Allen said his section had been called to the location of the incidental dozens of times anterior to the standoff owed to problems with the boys and their families, the Albuquerque Journal reported, adding that it is not known however the boys got the gun.  

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The boys wearing Minecraft and Star Wars-themed pajamas hid from deputies. (Bernalillo County Sheriff's Office)

The paper said nary charges person been filed against the boys and that they person not been removed from their home, though the weapon seen successful the video was seized. 

"Children are our future, and we cognize 1 broadside is going to say, 'Lock them successful jail.' They're 7 and 9 years old. I told you before, galore times successful galore interviews, that I recognize the frontal lobe," Allen said, according to the Albuquerque Journal. 

Deputies yet stormed the boys and took possession of the loaded firearm, video showed. (Bernalillo County Sheriff's Office)

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Members of the department's behavioral wellness portion are successful interaction with the boys' families "providing each recourse imaginable to assistance the children involved," a BCSO sergeant told Fox News Digital.

BCSO said its drone "allowed deputies to unafraid the country swiftly and safely, yet preventing a imaginable deadly unit brushwood with the juveniles."