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TexasTowelie

(117,236 posts)
Tue Dec 28, 2021, 06:37 AM Dec 2021

5 teenagers charged in armed carjacking of US Rep. Scanlon

PHILADELPHIA — Five teenagers were charged Thursday after the vehicle stolen at gunpoint in Philadelphia from U.S. Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon was found in neighboring Delaware, police said.

Scanlon's blue Acura MDX was located Wednesday night in Newark, Delaware, about 45 miles from Philadelphia, Delaware State Police said. The five were apprehended as they tried to flee, police said.

Scanlon, a Democrat, was walking to her parked vehicle after a meeting in the city's FDR Park shortly before 3 p.m. Wednesday when two armed men demanded her keys, police said. She handed them over, and one drove off in the car while the other followed in a dark sport utility vehicle, police said.

Scanlon was physically unharmed, said her spokesperson, Lauren Cox. Several personal and work items were also taken with the vehicle, police said.

Read more: https://www.phillytrib.com/news/local_news/5-teenagers-charged-in-armed-carjacking-of-us-rep-scanlon/article_84b119e9-ddcc-58cf-a1f6-f0a61cfe3e84.html
(Philadelphia Tribune)

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5 teenagers charged in armed carjacking of US Rep. Scanlon (Original Post) TexasTowelie Dec 2021 OP
And 3 of the teens received a stern finger wagging & sent home! WTAF??? SheltieLover Dec 2021 #1
What specifically did that 15 year old do? Effete Snob Dec 2021 #2
I'm not privy to all the details, only what was in the article, but it sounds like more than just 1 SheltieLover Dec 2021 #3

SheltieLover

(59,815 posts)
1. And 3 of the teens received a stern finger wagging & sent home! WTAF???
Tue Dec 28, 2021, 06:49 AM
Dec 2021
https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/politics/5-teens-charged-in-armed-carjacking-of-us-rep-mary-gay-scanlon/3087251/


State police say a 19-year-old man was involved in the armed carjacking and was turned over to the FBI. A 14-year-old girl and three boys, ages 13, 15 and 16, are charged with receiving stolen property. The 15-year-old also is charged with resisting arrest and criminal mischief.

Criminal mischief? Really?

Wtf is wrong with this country?????
 

Effete Snob

(8,387 posts)
2. What specifically did that 15 year old do?
Tue Dec 28, 2021, 07:55 AM
Dec 2021

“Criminal mischief” is a felony in Pennsylvania.

What is it you want to charge that individual of doing?

SheltieLover

(59,815 posts)
3. I'm not privy to all the details, only what was in the article, but it sounds like more than just 1
Tue Dec 28, 2021, 07:59 AM
Dec 2021

Had a gun.

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