Chase turns sour for lemonade stand robber


June 20, 2008

Terre Haute, Ind. (AP) --
Call it a lemonade standoff. A girl whose lemonade stand was robbed of $17.50 chased the suspect into a nearby home and called police, who spent nearly an hour trying to coax the man into surrendering.

"The guy came up and was, like, 'Give me your money,'" said 12-year-old Dominique Morefield, who was running the lemonade stand with a group of friends. "I was shocked. It was just my immediate reaction to chase after him."
Dominique dashed after the man who ran into a house, and then she called police. Officers eventually persuaded Steve Tryon, 18, to come outside after 45 minutes and arrested him on a preliminary felony charge of robbery.
Tryon made an initial appearance in Superior Court on Tuesday and was ordered to be held in the Vigo County Jail on $50,000 bond. He will be formally charged Friday, county Prosecutor Terry Modesitt said.

A telephone message seeking comment was left at the office of Michael Wright, a public defender assigned to represent Tryon.
"I didn't think anyone would come up to a lemonade stand and steal. That's really low," 12-year-old Fred Erstine said.
The kids said they would continue to sell lemonade, but with an adult's supervision.

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that is wrong, just wrong, hope he gets a few yrs for it to..

something isn't right here. they say it was a felony but he only stole $17 and some change. that there is a misdemeanor with time served and maybe community service. of course if he has a past record then the multiple offenses could add up to a felony.

You have a point here. Maybe the state has rules about crimes against a minor or maybe in the area of a school that they tacked on.

could be but over $17 and unarmed too. i bet it gets dropped down to a misdemeanor.

Most likely. The publicity has to have been embarrasing to say the least.

oh you know they are. i would definitly like to see a local paper there.

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thanks Roadmedic.

First off give that idiot a felony
Second how big is this cute, sweet little girl who chased down the full grown man
What kind of wimp is he LOL

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