Four Warren teens, mom, charged with aggravated burglary

Staff report

WARREN

Four city teens are charged in Trumbull County Juvenile Court with aggravated burglary in a Friday night incident in an apartment in the 300 block of Scott Street Northeast. One of their mothers also is charged.

The juveniles are girls age 13, 15 and 16 and a boy, 15. All have different Warren addresses.

The youths broke into an apartment at 8:36 p.m. and held down a man, 60, on a couch but didn’t injure him, police said. Two of the youths took possession of two knives in the apartment during the burglary, police said.

The boy’s mother, Pamela Wright, 43, of Woodview Avenue Southwest and Ohio Avenue Northwest, also was charged with aggravated burglary and was arrested Tuesday while attending her son’s initial court appearance in juvenile court. She was taken to jail. A not-guilty plea was entered for her Tuesday in Warren Municipal Court and bond was set at $50,000.

A witness said Wright stood near the entrance of the home during the purported burglary, which witnesses said stemmed from an argument between Wright and the victim, police said. Wright told a female at the victim’s house she was sending over her son because of the argument, police said.

A short time later, the four teens arrived, kicking in a window and door. The boy told police he kicked in the door because the victim “disrespected his mother.”

A woman and her son locked themselves in the bathroom during the burglary, police said.

The four juveniles were apprehended a short distance from the apartment.