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A 13-year-old Nelsonville boy who has been charged in connection with about 150 felonies was arrested after he allegedly beat up an informant, according to city police.
Police said they are expecting four youths and two adults to be charged as accomplices in some of the crimes the boy allegedly committed.
As The Messenger reported Friday, the 13-year-old denied 12 delinquency counts in Athens County Juvenile Court on Wednesday, including felony vandalism, felony theft, theft from the elderly, burglary, felony tampering and receiving stolen property. A March 21 pretrial has been slated. He had previously denied delinquency charges of burglary, intimidation of a witness, assault and theft from parked cars.
"A lot of them were happening in January or February of this year and it just escalated to the point that something was happening every day," Nelsonville Ptl. Ed Downs said.
Although Downs said police believed the youth worked alone on some things, he almost always had a lookout.
"We've had 27 cases documented since 2006 and they've been a serious problem through that amount of time, and we've heard from various people that they've been suspecting it was him," Downs said.
Nelsonville police searched the youth's home Feb. 23 after receiving a tip about the crimes from another juvenile, and found stolen property, much of which Downs said has been returned to the owners.
On Monday, the boy allegedly beat up the informant on a school bus, and Downs said he was taken into custody on a charge of intimidation of a witness. The informant is one of the youths who could be charged in the investigation, Downs said.
After the juvenile was locked up, Downs said, other witnesses -- who had been afraid of the boy and who knew what was going on and where some of the missing property was -- came forward with more information.
Several of the charges related to two burglaries of Fulbrooks Cafe and the Dew House in March and November of last year. Downs said the juvenile is accused of stealing money and candy the first time, and candy and the cash register the second time. He allegedly hid the cash register in a camper, where he emptied it, Downs said.
Downs said the current charges may not be the end of this.
"There's more than what we charged him with," Downs asserted. "There are just so many, the witnesses couldn't pinpoint them all."
The handful of "theft from the elderly" cases I've seen involve stealing from bedridden patients in hospitals or under home health care, or swindling an Alzheimer's patient, or promising a needed service - like delivery and set-up of a portable oxygen system - then taking the money and skipping town.
Arp2 wrote:Given Elizabeth's writing history, I'm surprised she didn't include a step-by-step "how to commit a felony, yourself" section.....
I have this mental picture: Arp and Elizabeth, cuddled up in bed. Elizabeth wearing nothing but Mickey Mouse ears and Arp sporting that big Burger King head.
ELIZ: C'mon Arp. Gimme the Whopper.
ARP: No ... not until you say you're sorry for placing punctuation outside the quotation marks in last Sunday's Messenger.
ELIZ: Oh Arp ...
ARP: That's "Oh <comma> Arp." The three trailing periods are OK.
ELIZ: Whopper? Please, baby?
ARP: With cheese?
ELIZ: Yeah baby, Whopper with cheese.
ARP: Dammit! It's "Yeah <comma> baby <period>" and then "Whopper <comma> with cheese" and three more of those trailing periods
ELIZ: (Sigh)
ELIZ: I'm going back to Mark Hallburn's house.
Hoosier Daddy wrote:I have this mental picture: Arp and Elizabeth, cuddled up in bed. Elizabeth wearing nothing but Mickey Mouse ears and Arp sporting that big Burger King head.
That's pretty hot...
I think you've given me new honeymoon ideas....
ELIZ: Oh Arp ...
ARP: That's "Oh <comma> Arp." The three trailing periods are OK.
"Ellipsis"
And, no...at the end of a sentence, it should be four!
And my usage is overwhelmingly in the informal sense...I certainly don't recommend it in normal writing.
ELIZ: Whopper? Please, baby?
Value menu Whopper Jr...best I can do....
ARP: With cheese?
ELIZ: Yeah baby, Whopper with cheese.
Absolutely not! I'm really clean! One girl I dated liked to lie on the couch with her head in the crook of my arm 'cause my arm always smelled so clean!
I guess most guys just aren't that clean...I've heard (from another source) many or most guys hit only five spots with soap during a typical shower....
