The Palm Beach Post

Teen pleads guilty in armed robbery of Jupiter student

- By Olivia Hitchcock Palm Beach Post Staff Writer ohitchcock@pbpost.com Twitter: @ohitchcock

and aggravated assault and battery charges. Exilas and Fuse remain there. However, WEST PALM BEACH — A as part of his plea, Quinn was 17-year-old pleaded guilty released to the Department Thursday to charges in the of Juvenile Justice. December armed robbery Two other teens, who of a Jupiter teen following were 13 and 14 at the time a botched marijuana deal. of the robbery, have not been

Court records indicate Corcharged as adults, according tez Quinn, of Riviera Beach, to court records. The statuses will spend time in a high-risk of their cases in the juvenile residentia­l program through courts were not immediatel­y the Department of Juvenile known.

Justice, though it was not Those teens reportedly immediatel­y known how beat and robbed a Jupiter long he will spend in the High School student on Third program. Street south of Indiantown

Authoritie­s charged Quinn, Road. The high schooler had Jeremy Exilas, 16, and Mayreached out on Snapchat to nard Fuse, 17, as adults in one of the younger teens to the Dec. 27 robbery that left buy marijuana. a 15-year-old with a head The would-be dealer didn’t injury. have anything to sell but

They were booked into the agreed to meet up to “rip county’s adult detention cen- him off,” according to police ter Jan. 18 on armed robbery records.

Quinn reportedly was the first to grab the teen because he thought he saw a gun in the teen’s pocket.

The five teenagers stole $41 from the Jupiter High stu- dent, records state.

Quinn was ordered to repay that student the $41 and write him an apology letter.

His mother told a judge she “has been very disappoint­ed” in Quinn’s decisions. She said he hasn’t made any excuses as to what happened and behaves at home.

Records indicate Quinn took classes in the county jail and was enrolled as a 12th-grade student. He was “an exceptiona­l student,” records state, and did not have any disciplina­ry problems.

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