MIAMI – A 14-year-old teenager was charged as an adult in a court in the city of Cape Coral, in southwestern Florida (USA), for the robbery with his brother of 11 years of 22 pistols in an armory in this town, a media outlet reported this Wednesday local.
The minor was accused of 22 charges for the crimes of “grand theft of a firearm, robbery, resisting arrest and conduct criminal”, collected the WINK News channel.
The events occurred on June 8, when the teenager along with his brother broke into the Guns 4 Less weapons store that morning.
The owner of the armory received an alert from his security company, and, when they reviewed the surveillance cameras shortly after, they were surprised that the thieves who entered the store were two children.
The Police indicated that the child of 11 years was caught quickly, but that the adolescent ran and tried to hide one of the weapons in a sewer grate on a street.
The 14-year-old boy He appeared this Tuesday in a court in the aforementioned city, where the judge imposed a bail of 286. dollars and He forbade him any contact with his little brother.
Apparently, the accused minor as an adult had already had problems in 2020 for threatening to carry out a mass shooting.