By Lori EhdeFour runaways from Southwestern Youth Services, Magnolia, were taken into custody late Friday night on the farm yard of Jack and Patsy Cragoe.The boys, ages 14, 16 and two at 17, ran away from the residential facility for troubled youth at about 1:45 a.m. Friday.They ended up on the Cragoe farm 1 1/2 miles away where they spent the rest of the day Friday in the grove and machine shed.Authorities were alerted of their location after one of the boys called his mother in Sioux Falls, asking her to pick them up.She, in turn, alerted local enforcement at about 10:30 p.m. Friday and the call was traced to the Cragoe residence.When Rock County deputies called the farm to warn of the boys’ presence there, the phone line was busy, because the Cragoes were on the Internet.Meanwhile, local dispatchers called Cragoe’s daughter and son-in-law Stacy and Hunter Riggs, who also have a home on the Cragoe farm.They learned from Riggs that Cragoe did keep a gun on the premises, so local deputies responded to the call with their weapons drawn."About that time we came up from the basement after checking e-mail … and we missed all the action," Jack Cragoe said. "They had our house surrounded — I suppose they figured it was a hostage situation."When Riggs opened the machine shed to see if the gun was there, he found the boys and called the deputies in that direction, Cragoe said.He said his pickup keys were right next to a case of Mountain Dew that the boys had helped themselves to, but they didn’t find that or the graham crackers, chocolate bars and marshmallows in the back seat of the pickup."As hungry as they were, I feel kind of bad they didn’t find the food," Cragoe said. "They didn’t do damage to anything, which is hard to believe."The boys were taken into custody without resistance and have since been turned over to juvenile detention centers in Worthington and Sioux Falls.According to Rock County Sheriff Mike Winkels, these boys, and all the boys residing at Southwestern Youth Services (formerly Pinnacle Programs Inc.) are considered non-violent offenders.They are sent by their hometown court systems to Magnolia typically after repeatedly finding themselves in trouble with the law. There are currently 12 juvenile boys in the local program.Winkels said he’d like to work with Magnolia residents and rural residents on a system to inform the area when boys like these run away."We’re attempting to devise a way, maybe a residential calling tree, so that they might be located a bit earlier and so people can go out and get the keys from their vehicles," Winkels said.Cragoe is local newsmakerStar Herald readers may remember Cragoe making headlines last fall when he fell more than 13 feet off the top of his combine and landed on his head.He reports that he’s made remarkable recovery from those potentially fatal injuries, with only neck stiffness to note.He’s in the Star Herald twice this week — for this story and a weather story, which includes information about storm damage on his property.He said his friends are telling him if bad things happen in threes, he’s done now. "Let’s hope that’s the case," he said Tuesday.