Posted on 04/12/2006 11:20:53 AM PDT by Renfield
Three seniors from Huntingtown High School were charged as adults with armed robbery and first-degree assault last week after holding up another Calvert County teenager in his home, law enforcement and school officials said.
Robert Dredger, 17, and John Obal, 18, both from Chesapeake Beach, along with Ali Moasser, 17, from Huntingtown, are accused of carrying out a robbery with a 20-gauge shotgun on Wednesday to take a laptop computer, a cellphone and a wooden box from the Huntingtown home of 18-year-old Ryan Dailey, according to the Calvert Investigative Team.
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The robbery in Huntingtown occurred about 3 p.m. as Dailey and his friend Dredger were watching television in his second-floor bedroom while another friend talked on the phone in the downstairs recreation room, according to charging documents. The friend downstairs yelled that two men were running toward the house with ski masks, police said. The masked men went upstairs, pointed a shotgun at Dailey's face and stole a Hewlett Packard laptop, a Verizon cellphone and a wooden box, according to charging documents. Moasser held the shotgun, Dailey told police.
As the robbers left in a green Ford Explorer, Dailey wrote down the license plate number, and police were able to track down the suspects. The Explorer was registered to Obal, according to documents. The laptop was found in a vehicle driven by Dredger, who initially told police he had managed to get the computer back and was going to return it to Dailey, but later admitted to police that he helped plan the robbery, according to documents. His role was to send a text message to Obal telling him when to come to the house and how many people were there, charging documents said.
The robbery was intended to help a friend in financial trouble, Obal told police.
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BTW, this is an upscale area, rapidly growing. Average new home price here is around $450K.
You think Chesapeake Beach is an upscale area?
Show these punks no mercy. Give them the maximum sentence and if it turns out they got the gun from one of the parents then prosecute them as well.
The first thought I had was that this is drug related. Do you think there's any possibility of that?
If I'd done something like this as a teenager, any punishment meted out by the authorities would have been mild compared to what I'd have incurred at home. Of course, that knowledge played a big part in keeping me on the straight-and-narrow.
Who says vocational education has gone by the boards?
"....You think Chesapeake Beach is an upscale area?...
No,I meant Huntingtown.
Chesapeake Beach....well, nothing would surprise me there.
The WaPo version of this story is short on details. The "wooden box" referred to by WaPo, was called an "empty wooden box" by our local paper. I suspect that the thieves thought there would be something inside the wooden box, besides air. I really can't see going to all this trouble to steal a laptop and a cell phone. They were probably after someone's stash.
And by the way, who is to say that the box wasn't empty? An empty box was recovered by the police. Would the thieves admit it had contained, say, 500 hits of LSD or MDMA? Would the owner of the box admit that? People don't go around robbing folks of wooden boxes.
(disclosure: I once was robbed of a wooden box by a couple of teenage burglars, but they used it to carry a pistol and ammo, and a collection of rare comic books, that they stole from me.....)
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