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Two Charged With Robbery
THIRD SUSPECT STILL AT LARGE
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Published: June 26, 2008
SEBRING – A Sebring woman remained in Highlands County Jail in lieu of $111,000 bond and a 16-year-old Sebring boy was turned over to the care of the Department of Juvenile Justice in Bartow after they were arrested in connection with a robbery Monday evening on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.
Sharome Shurphybellamy Foster, 20, of 412 Vicki Terrace, was charged with robbery no firearm or weapon and resisting a law enforcement officer without violence.
The 16-year-old Sebring High School student was charged with robbery only.
It was about 7 p.m. Monday when sheriff's deputies say Foster drove the 16-year-old and an unnamed suspect to Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and Cemetery Road where the teenager and unnamed suspect reportedly got out of the car and robbed the 34-year-old male victim of his cell phone.
The telephone was valued at $39.
They reportedly beat the victim, telling him, "I want what's in your pockets," while punching him and knocking him to the ground.
The two then jumped back into the car and drove off with Foster at the wheel, the report stated. Then at a second location on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard north of Green Acre Way, the two again jumped out and beat the same victim a second time.
The gold Toyota Corolla they were reportedly driving was spotted about 7:57 p.m., with Foster behind the wheel. She told deputies she had been driving with her brother and the second male. She said the incident started as an argument at Martin Luther King and Lemon Street, the report stated.
She said the argument continued when the victim threw a beer bottle at the car near Cemetery Road. It continued when they saw the victim again north of Green Acre Way when the males jumped out again, the report stated.
When Foster was told she was under arrest on a charge of robbery, she tried to pull away, the report stated, resulting in the resisting arrest charge. The teenager came to the sheriff's office and gave his side.
He described the incident about the same as Foster, referring it more like wrestling with the victim, but denied the second male suspect was in the car with him and denied taking a cell phone.
Joe Seelig can be reached at jseelig@highlandstoday.com
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