BELLEVUE, Wash. (AP) — Four boys, including one just 11 years old, have been charged with first-degree robbery in a Bellevue gas station holdup.
A police spokeswoman, Carla Iafrate (eye-uh-FRAY’-tee), says the 11-year-old distracted the clerk while his 15-year-old brother got behind the clerk and held a realistic-looking pellet gun to his neck. They got away with about $200 Sunday night. Bellevue police allege the other two boys, also 15, waited across the street and acted as lookouts.
Officers recognized the brothers from surveillance video and arrested them Monday along with the two friends.
In court documents, Bellevue police Officer Sarah Finkel says the 15-year-old accused of holding the pellet gun had talked about robbing a 7-11 to get money but the boys decided the clerk at a nearby 7-11 was “huge.” Finkel says the youths decided the clerk at the targeted gas station was “a short scrawny guy.”
The boys were charged Thursday in King County Juvenile Court.
