The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Department have arrested two teens in connection with an armed robbery with a handgun that occurred Wednesday afternoon in the trailer park in the 200 block of Casey Avenue in Woodlawn.
18-year-old Tymaree Ortiz-Turner of Mt. Vernon and a 17-year-old juvenile were arrested after sheriff’s deputies and Mt. Vernon Police stopped a car that matched the description of the vehicle involved. It had fled a deputy a short distance away before being stopped in the 4600 block of Broadway.
The victim, who lived at the trailer park, reported being battered about the face with the handgun during the robbery in which personal property was taken. Once the suspects and the vehicle were secured, evidence related to the crime was allegedly observed in the vehicle.
Both Ortiz-Turner and the juvenile were arrested for armed robbery and armed violence. Ortiz-Turner is being held in the Jefferson County Detention Center while the juvenile was taken to the Franklin County Juvenile Detention Facility.
