Tyler Robbery Suspect Arrested
Posted/updated on: July 19, 2018 at 2:59 pm
TYLER – A teenage runaway has been arrested on robbery and theft charges. It all began shortly after 5:00 Wednesday morning when police say the 14 year old boy stole a B-B gun at Wal-Mart on Highway 31. Around 6:30 he is said to have used the gun to rob the Donut Palace on East 5th Street. He is then said to have tried to rob a man in a nearby parking lot. He was found after police got a call from a resident who saw a juvenile jump over her fence at her residence in the area of the robbery. Investigators found the money taken in the robbery and the gun that he had discarded. The teen, who had run away from the Willow Bend Center on Highway 31 East, was booked into the Smith County Juvenile Attention Center.
