PENNSYLVANIA Two teens arrested, charged with robbery

Police said the pair also talked about robbing a McDonald's restaurant.
By HAROLD GWIN
VINDICATOR SHARON BUREAU
SHARON, Pa. -- Police arrested two teenage boys shortly after they were alleged to have robbed two men of drugs at gunpoint.
Police said the pair were carrying stolen handguns at the time of their arrest shortly after 7 p.m. Tuesday in the Sharon City Centre parking lot.
Thomas D. Mills, 18, of Bend Road, Mercer, and Randolph J. Scott, 16, of Woodbine Drive, Hermitage, faced arraignment today on charges of robbery, recklessly endangering another person, carrying firearms without a license, possession of instruments of crime and receiving stolen property.
Scott faces an additional count of possession of marijuana.
What happened
Police got a telephone tip that the pair were at the McDonald's Restaurant at West State Street and Water Avenue and had just committed a robbery. Further, the caller told authorities the two were talking about robbing McDonald's as well.
The first officer to reach the scene found Mills and Scott in the Sharon City Centre parking lot across Water Avenue from McDonald's and took them into custody at gunpoint, police said.
Mills was carrying a Jennings .25-caliber semiautomatic handgun while Scott was carrying a Ruger Super Redhawk .44-caliber magnum revolver in a shoulder holster, police said.
The robbery was a drug deal gone bad, police said, explaining that Mills and Scott met with a 17-year-old Sharon boy and a 21-year-old city man along the Shenango River south of the Quaker Steak & amp; Lube complex to buy a half-ounce of marijuana.
Mills and Scott pulled their guns and took the drugs at gunpoint, police said.
Mills and Scott then went to McDonald's where they openly bragged about what they had done and talked about robbing the restaurant, police said.
Scott is being treated as an adult in the case because of the armed robbery. State law provides that juveniles charged with certain violent crimes can be charged as adults.
Police said the guns the two were carrying had been stolen from a home in Mercer.
Both teens listed their occupation as students, although police said Scott has apparently dropped out of school. Mills is a student at West Middlesex High School, police said.