By Nancy Peckenham
A 15-year-old city of Newburgh male faces charges stemming from five robberies, the most recent on Friday, January 6, when a laptop was stolen from a woman standing on the sidewalk on Johnston Street.
City police report that officers arrested the teen after Friday’s incident in which a woman standing in front of the Newburgh Ministry was approached by a group of juveniles acting “drunk.” She told police that the youths yelled “get the laptop” and the 15-year-old forcibly ripped it from her and ran.
Police say that when officers stopped the youth several blocks away he tried to shove the laptop into his pants.
The 15-year-old is familiar to city police, who arrested him and another 15-year-old on December 26 for allegedly pistol-whipping two men on Fullerton Avenue before taking off with the victims’ wallet and cash. That arrest led to the teen being charged with two other robberies, one of which left a 49-year-old man with several broken ribs. A small caliber handgun was fired into the ceiling of a barber shop in the other robbery, police say.
In addition to the January 6 robbery, City of Newburgh detectives have charged the teen with an additional count of robbery in the first degree for a separate gunpoint robbery t reported on December 26t.
The youth had been released to the custody of his parent/guardian, but with the addition of the charge for second-degree robbery on January 6, he has been sent to a juvenile detention facility pending arraignment.
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