Judge giving convicted teen second chance
Probation for robbery attempt has conditions
A judge is giving a 15-yearold who was caught in a foiled robbery attempt a chance to redeem himself.
Judge Woodrow Hudson, a magistrate in Franklin County Juvenile Court, sentenced Demarco Coleman yesterday to at least one year of probation, with some conditions.
Coleman was convicted yesterday of a delinquency count of robbery for trying to rob a Minuteman Pizza delivery man with two other teens in June.
The company feared an order that had been called in for two pizzas at an East Side home was a setup; the home owners didn?’t know anything about the order when a Minuteman employee called back to check.
The pizza shop?’s employees called police, who arrested two of the three teens as all three tried to run away, police records state. A baseball bat dropped by one of the teens was found at the scene.
Coleman told Hudson that he?’s starting a new life, by leaving friends on the Near East Side and moving to Pickerington, where he?’ll play high-school football this fall.
Hudson ordered Coleman to improve his failing gradepoint average. He also set a 9 p.m. curfew and ordered that Coleman?’s homework always be done.
If he doesn?’t comply, the judge said, Coleman will be sent to a juvenile prison.
Probation for robbery attempt has conditions
A judge is giving a 15-yearold who was caught in a foiled robbery attempt a chance to redeem himself.
Judge Woodrow Hudson, a magistrate in Franklin County Juvenile Court, sentenced Demarco Coleman yesterday to at least one year of probation, with some conditions.
Coleman was convicted yesterday of a delinquency count of robbery for trying to rob a Minuteman Pizza delivery man with two other teens in June.
The company feared an order that had been called in for two pizzas at an East Side home was a setup; the home owners didn?’t know anything about the order when a Minuteman employee called back to check.
The pizza shop?’s employees called police, who arrested two of the three teens as all three tried to run away, police records state. A baseball bat dropped by one of the teens was found at the scene.
Coleman told Hudson that he?’s starting a new life, by leaving friends on the Near East Side and moving to Pickerington, where he?’ll play high-school football this fall.
Hudson ordered Coleman to improve his failing gradepoint average. He also set a 9 p.m. curfew and ordered that Coleman?’s homework always be done.
If he doesn?’t comply, the judge said, Coleman will be sent to a juvenile prison.
