SMITHFIELD – Three teenagers are facing felony charges after they allegedly followed a woman home from Walmart and robbed her.
The incident happened Friday, November 8 around 8:09pm. The 66 year-old victim was in the parking lot of Walmart in Smithfield loading items in her car. She was struggling to get a heavy item into her car and an unknown male approached and helped her place the item in the vehicle.
The woman felt she was followed home. While at her residence, off Devil’s Racetrack Road near Four Oaks, two males approached her outside her vehicle and grabbed her purse containing cash, debit cards, and her cell phone. They fled in a vehicle parked at the road.
The stolen debit cards were later used at businesses in Smithfield, Selma and Benson.
On November 21, the Johnston County Sheriff’s Office arrested Tayshuan James Whitner, 18, of Raleigh; Latraviun Dontrell Parker, 19, of Tarboro, and Malik Xzavier Roberts, 18, of Henrico, NC.
Whitner and Roberts were both charged with common law robbery, felony conspiracy, and obtaining property by false pretense.
Parker was charged with common law robbery, felony conspiracy, two counts of obtaining property by false pretense, larceny, identity theft, and uttering a forged instrument.
All three suspects were given $60,000 secured bonds.
The victim sustained minor injuries.
These young men need to be put away for about 10 yrs each to think about what they did, This snatch and grab stuff of the elderly must quit. And DA make sure you do not release them, for if you do, they will do it again and maybe this time some will get killed and the blood will be on your hands.
Jails are getting too full. We need to take a page from other countries, and maybe our own history, and start shipping violent criminals out elsewhere. Completely revoke citizenship upon conviction and immediate naturalization to Haiti or Cuba seems appropriate. Violating a innocent person’s rights in the way these men did should have more dire consequences. There’s not enough of a deterrent under our current legal system to tamper this.
“Violating a innocent person’s rights in the way these men did should have more dire consequences” Do you have insider details on what they were sentenced to? I agree that they need to pay a heavy price for that nonsense, but what kind of country deports teenagers?
Crazy how now the election is over, and Trump isn’t bringing crime down. If anything, it’s getting worse. Another campaign promise broken.
Send them to prison they will probably like it