Two teenage girls told Erie police that four days after Christmas they contacted a boy they knew and asked for a ride to the store to buy food.
At some point during the trip, the girls said, the car stopped and the boy they were asking for a ride got out, grabbed a gun, pointed it at them and demanded their money, according to city police detectives.
Police wrote in the criminal complaint against the two robbery suspects that both girls believed they were going to be killed.
On February 5, Erie police continued to search for a boy accused of threatening girls and robbing them. Tone M. Husband, 16, of Erie, is wanted on charges filed Dec. 31 including robbery, carrying a firearm without a license and possessing a firearm prohibited, a felony, according to Erie police and court records.
Police charged the husband under the Fisher Act, a state law that allows teenagers accused of violent crimes to be charged as adults.
Also involved in the investigation is Jarron D. Troop, 19, of Erie, who faces two felony charges of conspiracy to commit robbery, according to police and court records. Troop was arraigned on the charges on Dec. 30 and was released after posting bond. He is scheduled to appear in court for a preliminary hearing on Feb. 20, according to information in his criminal docket.
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Riding leads to robbery
The teenage girls told police they contacted Husband on Dec. 29 to ask for a ride to the store and buy food, according to information in a probable cause affidavit filed in the criminal complaint against Husband and Troop. They said they were picked up by a vehicle driven by troops. The girls said they were taken to a location on Parade Street where they went in to order food and snacks while their husbands and Troup waited in the car, according to information in an affidavit filed in Troup’s complaint.
After the girls got back into the car, it drove to the 200 block of Wallace Street, according to the affidavit. The husband reportedly got out of the car while Troup was still in the driver’s seat and the husband obtained a gun from behind the rear passenger seat, police said.
The girls said their husband then fired a round into the gun, pointed it at them, demanded money and threatened to shoot them if they didn’t, detectives wrote in an affidavit filed in the husband’s complaint.
One of the girls said she was robbed of $1,100. Another girl said she was robbed of about $850, according to information in the affidavit.
The girls said they fled the car after the robbery. Neither man was reportedly injured.
Police later found the vehicle in the 500 block of East Fifth Street and found Troup inside, police wrote in Troup’s affidavit.
Please contact Tim Hahn at thahn@usatodayco.com.
This article originally appeared in the Erie Times-News: Erie teen accused of robbing two girls of cash at gunpoint in December
