Boy sleuth gets reward from Phoenix Police

A 9-year-old west Phoenix boy has received a key to the city, along with a police shirt and badge, for helping police catch some burglary suspects.

Graham Young also got a plaque and some Arizona Diamondbacks tickets in a ceremony Friday.

The boy was playing in his backyard when he saw three people trying to get into his neighbors' house, police said.

Graham said initially he thought they might be relatives or friends of his neighbor's, but, "Once I saw them going into the window, I knew that they wouldn't fit."

He ran into his house and told his mother, who called police.

A short time later, officers arrested three suspects a block away and recovered jewelry and electronics which had been stolen from the neighbors.

Graham's mother, Debbie Young, said her son remembered what he's been taught.

"We're a Christian family and we've taught him right and wrong. And we've told him he doesn't get the privilege of being scared and not doing what's right," she said.