Posted on 01/27/2023 12:05:59 PM PST by Red Badger
VALDOSTA, Ga. (WTGS) — Two Georgia children, an 11-year-old and a 15-year-old, were arrested on Wednesday after robbing a man at gunpoint in Valdosta.
According to the Valdosta Police Department, officers responded on Jan. 15 to reports of a group of juveniles who had robbed a man of a PlayStation 5 he was trying to sell.
Police said one of the children had pulled out a handgun and robbed him of the PlayStation.
The victim told officers that he got in his car and began to leave when the two children began to chase him and shot at his vehicle, striking it twice.
The mother of one of the children gave police permission to search their residence, officers said.
On Wednesday, Jan. 25, both children were arrested without incident and have been detained at a Regional Youth Detention Center.
The 11-year-old child was charged with armed robbery, aggravated assault, criminal damage to property in the 2nd degree, all of which were felonies, and reckless conduct, which was a misdemeanor.
The 15-year-old was charged with armed robbery party to the crime, aggravated assault party to the crime, and criminal damage to property in the 2nd-degree party to the crime, all of which were felonies.
Detectives also located a 16-year-old child who was in possession of the stolen PlayStation and charged him with theft by receiving stolen property.
This is an alarming incident," Valdosta Police Chief Leslie Manahan said. "The fact that an 11-year-old had a firearm and shot at someone is disturbing. I am proud of the work from our officers and detectives to hold these juveniles accountable. We are grateful that no one was injured.
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Valdosta Police Department 21h · Detectives arrest an 11-year-old juvenile and a 15-year-old juvenile, for involvement in an armed robbery and an aggravated assault.
On January 15, 2023, at approximately 3:34 pm., Valdosta Police Officers responded to an address in the 500 block of New Hudson Street after a citizen called E911 to report that someone had shot at juveniles that ran into her house. While officers were speaking with the parties involved in this incident, another citizen called E911 to report that he had met a group of juveniles in front of a residence, in the same area on New Hudson Street to sell a Play Station 5. He stated that one of the juveniles had pulled out a handgun and robbed him of the Play Station. The victim told officers that he got in his car and began to leave the area when the juveniles chased him and shot at his vehicle, striking it twice.
The victim gave a description of the juveniles that robbed him, which matched the description of the juveniles who reported they someone had shot at them. Officers received cooperation from the mother of one of the juveniles to search their residence. During the search, officers found items of evidence and collected it to submit to the Valdosta-Lowndes Regional Crime Laboratory.
Detectives started investigating the incident. Through investigation detectives identified that an 11-year-old male juvenile, and a 15 year old male juvenile were involved in the armed robbery and aggravated assault incident.
Detectives worked with the Department of Juvenile Justice and charged the 11-year-old juvenile with armed robbery (felony), aggravated assault (felony), criminal damage to property in the 2nd degree (felony), and reckless conduct (misdemeanor). The 15-year-old was charged with armed robbery party to the crime (felony), aggravated assault party to the crime (felony), and criminal damage to property in the 2nd degree party to the crime (felony).
On January 25, 2023, both juveniles were arrested without incident and have been detained at a Regional Youth Detention Center.
Detectives also located a 16-year-old juvenile who was in possession of the stolen Play Station. He has been charged with theft by receiving stolen property.
"This is an alarming incident. The fact that an 11-year-old had a firearm and shot at someone is disturbing. I am proud of the work from our officers and detectives to hold these juveniles accountable. We are grateful that no one was injured." Said Chief Leslie Manahan.
Valdosta does not surprise me.
They ain’t “children.”
Need I look?
Thank God our governor and AG want to take guns out of the hands of legal, responsible owners.
Given the demographics of Valdosta, not only is it not disturbing, it's expected.
Nothing to see. Minors.......................
“The victim gave a description of the juveniles that robbed him, which matched the description of the juveniles who reported they someone had shot at them.”
Two things:
1) Not surprisingly, the reporter conveniently avoids mentioning the race of the suspects.
2) The reporter don’t write so good.
The Amish again?
‘Not surprisingly, the reporter conveniently avoids mentioning the race of the suspects’
I don’t think I need to guess the race.
They have to withhold that info because it’s better to talk about problems in useless vagaries than focusing on the source of the problem and what can be done.
Either that or Florida Man took his kids on vacation.
2) The reporter don’t write so good.
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Consider the source. It’s a local TV news source. And it has long been a pet peeve of mine to notice that the worst, sloppiest, most inept form of journalism is from local TV news sources.
I am convinced that they hire nothing but junior college journalism dropouts who’s only qualification is that they look good on TV.
Check it out yourself. The next time you see a badly written report, check it and see if it’s not from a TV news station. I’ve seen fourth graders that can write better than they do.
Children? Next thing you know the media will be covering for their race too!
I don’t know how available Playstation 5’s are now. I tried to buy the digital version for one of my sons for his birthday two years ago, and like a dummy, I bought some of the accessories he wanted before being able to find the console. After a year I gave up, and got him an X-box X instead. About the only way you could get a Playstation 5 of any kind back then, was to rob somebody of theirs, or pay some crook a thousand dollars on Amazon, neither of which I was about to do.
It has evolved from parents fighting over toys. I still recall the days of Tickle Me Elmo brawls in stores.
“ The victim gave a description of the juveniles that robbed him, which matched the description of the juveniles”
What was the description…A child with absolutely no identifiable characteristics whatsoever…looked exactly the same as any other child in America from anywhere such as rural utah or pennsylvania farm country or something
PlayStation = Baseball Field
Not sitting on you can and seeing who has the fastest thumbs.
“The Amish again?”
A short while ago, some FR concern troll attacked me for using Amish to avoid “racism” by calling out the species involved.
Concerned, they were............Ignore them, I will.
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