CARTHAGE — Four teens are accused of robbing and assaulting a 78-year-old Robbins man on separate occasions, the Moore County Sheriff’s Office said today.
The home-invasion robberies at the home of the victim, who was not identified, on Mount Carmel Road happened Christmas Day and Jan. 2, Deputy Chief Frank Rodriguez said.
On both occasions, the four broke in after dark, he said. The victim was beaten on both occasions, but did not require hospitalization.
Firearms were taken on the Christmas Day robbery, Rodriguez said, while money and prescription drugs were taken in the Jan. 2 incident.
Those arrested are John Dawson Harner, 18, of the 100 block of Coley Lane in Carthage; Nelson Aaron Ismail, 18, of the 200 block of Love Grove Church Road in West End; Trip Thomas Sloan, 18, of the 100 block of Governors Creek Lane in Carthage; and Armani Montriez Baldwin, 17, of Carthage.
Harner, Sloan and Baldwin are charged with two counts each of first-degree burglary, robbery with a dangerous weapon, larceny of a firearm and possessing a stolen firearm; and one count each of possessing stolen property.
Harner also is charged with misdemeanor assault.
Ismail is charged with one count each of the same offenses and possession of firearm by a felon.
Bail was set at $150,000 for Sloan, $125,000 for Harner and $100,000 each for Ismail and Baldwin.
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