MIAMI – Miami-Dade County Circuit Judge Mindy S. Glazer used to be perplexed on Tuesday when a teenage boy seemed in a court docket the place adults hoping to be launched seem after their arrest.
Glazer requested Berry Petitdos to attend till she may determine why he wasn’t in juvenile court. Corrections inmate information reported a police officer had a criminal pass judgement on signal the warrant for his arrest.
“He is 17. We don’t have jurisdiction,” Glazer mentioned ahead of a prosecutor in court informed her an assistant state lawyer sought after to rate Petitdos as an adult.
Glazer introduced she used to be moving the case to juvenile court. She additionally warned Berry, who became 17 on March 31, that “chances are” he’s going to be again in adult court “given the serious nature of the charges.”
Berry used to be the one minor out of a bunch of suspects, ages 18 and 19, in a crime spree involving a stolen darkish grey 2019 Jeep on Aug. 31, in Miami-Dade and Broward counties, police mentioned.
According to Officer Kiara Delva, a spokeswoman for the Miami Police Department, the crowd abducted a person at about 10 a.m., on the Flanigan’s Seafood Bar and Grill, at 2721 Bird Ave., in Coconut Grove.
The kidnappers ordered the person to withdraw money out of his checking account, and when he refused one of them struck him in the face with a gun, in keeping with the Miami Police Department.
The guy used to be in a position to invite a financial institution teller for lend a hand at a Bank of America in Plantation, and a police pursuit after the stolen Jeep began at about 3 p.m., in Fort Lauderdale, police mentioned.
The driving force crashed — injuring an individual in every other automobile — and the Jeep flipped over till it struck a development close to the intersection of Southwest Third Street and 27 Terrace, in keeping with Detective Ali Adamson, a spokeswoman for the Fort Lauderdale Police Department.
Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue group of workers took the injured to the Broward Health Medical Center, police mentioned. Detectives recognized the opposite suspects who had been with Berry as Erick Melgar, who became 18 on May 3; Kevin Tomlinson, who became 18 on April 27; and Leondre Walker, 19.
Broward Sheriff’s Office deputies had been retaining Melgar on the North Broward Bureau in Pompano Beach with out bond, information display. He used to be dealing with fees in Broward of irritated fleeing with critical physically damage; fleeing and eluding regulation enforcement; and grand robbery auto.
BSO deputies had been retaining Walker on the Joseph V. Conte Facility in Pompano Beach with out bond, information display. He used to be dealing with fees in Broward of resisting an officer with out violence and grand robbery auto.
BSO deputies extradited Tomlinson to Miami-Dade County on Tuesday. He used to be on the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center with out bond and dealing with fees in Miami-Dade of irritated attack with a firearm, irritated battery, armed theft, and armed kidnapping, information display.
BSO deputies additionally extradited Berry on Tuesday to Miami-Dade County the place he used to be dealing with fees of irritated attack with a firearm, irritated battery, armed theft, and armed kidnapping.
Detectives had been asking someone with information in regards to the circumstances to name Miami-Dade County Crime Stoppers at 305-471-8477 or Broward County Crime Stoppers at 954-493-8477.
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