CLEVELAND HEIGHTS, Ohio — Two 16-year-old boys are facing juvenile charges that accuse them of arranging an attempted robbery in Cleveland Heights.
A University Heights boy and a Cleveland Heights boy are charged with the juvenile equivalent of attempted aggravated robbery in the Sunday incident near the Canterbury Elementary School on Kingston Road, according to a police report.
The University Heights boy bought a pair of Beats by Dre headphones from the victim several days before the incident. His friend — later identified as the Cleveland Heights boy — called the victim Sunday to arrange a meeting to repay him, the report says.
The victim’s mother dropped him off just before 5:30 p.m. When the Cleveland Heights boy arrived at the meeting point, he pulled out a small black hatchet and demanded the victim’s cellphone, the report says.
The victim ran back to his mother’s car to call police. The Cleveland Heights boy left before officers arrived.
Cleveland Heights officers went to University Heights to speak with the boy who bought the headphone. The boy’s father let the officers search his son’s phone, and the officers noticed a call to the same phone that the friend used to call the victim.
Officers then spoke with the Cleveland Heights boy, who admitted he’d been with the University Heights boy earlier that day. The officers took the boy’s blue winter coat, which the victim identified as the coat the friend had been wearing during the attempted robbery, the report says.
Officers seized both boys’ winter coats and cellphones as evidence.
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