18-year-old faces charge in robbery of Warren store

Two 17-year-olds accused of being accomplices could be tried as adults.
By ED RUNYAN
VINDICATOR TRUMBULL STAFF
WARREN -- A city man who turned 18 a month before police say he aided in an armed robbery at a Convenient Food Mart on Parkman Road has been indicted on a charge of complicity to aggravated robbery.
Roger D. Boggs, of 437 Vine St., will be arraigned Wednesday in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court before Judge Peter Kontos. Boggs was indicted by a county grand jury earlier this week. If convicted, he faces a prison sentence of three to 10 years.
Two 17-year-old boys from Warren have also been charged with aggravated robbery in county juvenile court in the March 6 robbery.
Warren police Detective Jeff Hoolihan said it is possible that the two juveniles will be charged as adults when their cases come up for probable-cause hearings in juvenile court.
Hoolihan said Boggs' role in the robbery was that he entered the store alone before the juveniles and asked for change for $5 to get the cash register open, and then he signaled the two juveniles on his way out of the store, Hoolihan said.
Hoolihan said police were called to the store at 9:25 p.m. and spoke with a woman who said she witnessed the robbery from her car parked in front of the store.
What witness said
She said two males, one with a pistol, walked into the store and grabbed money and sprayed Mace in the clerk's face. The two then fled on foot.
Hoolihan said the those two were the juveniles, and they were wearing masks over their mouths, but at some point during the robbery, one of the juveniles took his mask off, and a camera in the store picked up his image.
Police located a Crossman pellet air pistol off Tod Avenue several days later that they believe was used in the robbery, Hoolihan said. Police arrested the three suspects around that time and charged them with the crime, he said.
The clerk told police the two men walked into the store wearing hoodies and after they threatened him with the gun, he gave them about $500 in cash. The suspects threw $135 worth of $5 bills on the floor, police said, and that money was returned to the clerk.