Three masked teens attack, beat other teen and rob him
Bat-wielding trio tells Wellington boy to exit Loxahatchee.
LOXAHATCHEE GROVES — Three teenagers are accused o f b e a t i n g a n d r o b b i n g another teen this month in Loxahatchee Groves, Palm B e a c h C o u n t y S h e r i f f ’s records show.
Nicholas Wildeman — the only one of the trio older than 18 — was arrested Feb. 4 on armed robbery and aggravated assault charges. The Wellington teen whom the three are accused of robbing recognized Wildeman by the scar under his left eye, records show.
The teen and three others drove late Feb. 2 to a wooded area near A Road and 160th Street North, records state. Two of the people wandered off, he said, and it was just him and a woman in the car.
A white SUV pulled up and three teenagers jumped out. Their faces were covered with T-shirts, the teen said, and they were carrying metal baseball bats.
They hit him several times, the teen said, and threw something in his eyes that caused him to be temporarily blinded.
The three ordered him out of the car and grabbed his backpack. “Stay out of Loxahatchee,” they reportedly said. “Go back to Wel- lington.”
Wildeman is a Palm Beach Shores resident, records show. He is being held in the Palm Beach County Jail on $100,000 bail. The victim met Wildeman in a juvenile first-offender program, records show, and they’d stayed in touch.
It’s unclear whether the other suspects, who are 16 and 17, have been arrested. Wildeman’s arrest report lists them as co-defendants. The Post is not naming them because they are minors and have not been charged as adults.
One of the people who left the car before the robbery told sheriff ’s officials she knew about the robbery plans and identified the two other suspects.