Wando students' sentencing set
The sentencing for a group of Wando High School students arrested for their roles in the armed robbery of a Mount Pleasant Food Lion store has been set for 9:30 a.m. Tuesday.
The eight youths earlier pleaded guilty for their role as lookouts in the August 2006 grocery store holdup. The charges include conspiracy to commit armed robbery and accessory after the fact. Possible punishments range from probation to some form of incarceration.
Two others received 10 years in prison for their lead roles in the robbery and associated crime spree.
Charleston Circuit Judge Roger Young delayed the sentencings, originally scheduled for this week, to attend the funeral service for Circuit Judge James W. Johnson Jr., in Clinton.
The sentencings will be in the courtroom of Circuit Judge Roger Young at the Charleston County Judicial Center.
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nikkiP (anonymous) says...
Okay, we need to advertise this to the criminal youth:
When you get sent to jail, you are "introduced" to the prison population by throwing you out into the yard with a dress on.
July 17, 2008 at 7:50 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
BigSargeofSC (anonymous) says...
What a waist of their youth. Stupids! But look at the up-side of things: at least they already know how to lookout for each other's backs, right?
July 17, 2008 at 8:25 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
drp7773 (anonymous) says...
Well sounds like the judge has stalled this long enough, sounds like probation is on the way for these poor poor brats.
July 17, 2008 at 8:37 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
nochasgirl (anonymous) says...
Too bad their address wasn't Gadsden Green, they would get off easy!
July 17, 2008 at 9:07 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
RedSnappa (anonymous) says...
wealthy and white has its privlages.......
July 17, 2008 at 11:08 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Tammie (anonymous) says...
Lmao @ Nikki
July 17, 2008 at 1:05 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
noname (anonymous) says...
nochasgirl, the kids from Gadsden Green did not have Andy Savage as their laywer either.
I agree with drp7773, the wando brats will only get probation.
July 17, 2008 at 1:18 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
GG (anonymous) says...
I am so sick of everyone always calling these punks "Wando students."
These were Mt. Pleasant young people. The fact that some of them attended Wando HS is insignificant.
Wando HS has over 3000 students. To refer to these few punks as Wando students is unfair to the reputation of the best HS in Chas. Cty.
Wando HS had nothing to do with these thugs' decision to pull off these crimes. I never hear other young criminals being called "blank HS students."
July 17, 2008 at 2:48 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
nochasgirl (anonymous) says...
I will assume the Gadsden Green boys had court appointed attorneys--big assumption, I know. If the Gadsden Green boys had court appointed attorneys, then I would say the Mt Pleasant boys wasted their money. The 16 yr old Gadsden Green child who robbed and shot someone with a pellet gun received juvenile detention, the 16 yr old Mt Pleasant child who robbed with a pellet gun received 10 yrs in an adult prison?????????? The Mt Pleasant boys had their pictures printed in the newspaper several times. The Gadsden Green children never had their names, pictures, or schools reported??????????????
July 17, 2008 at 3:54 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
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