Juvenile robbery suspect may be tried as an adult

By JIM BUTLER
 
What happens next for the juvenile who attempted a holdup in Academy on Tuesday depends on his/her age.
 
Police, as is customary in juvenile mayhem, have released little information regarding the suspect.
 
If 17, he/she is an adult offender under terms of a state law passed earlier this year, part of a package labeled get tough on crime.
 
If 16, he/she could be tried as an adult if prosecutors deemed the circumstances fit legal parameters.
 
According to police, the suspect fired a handgun during a robbery attempt in the store, then fled in a vehicle he/she crashed across town at MacArthur Drive & Veterans Drive.
 
Circumstances of the suspect’s possession of the vehicle have not been shared.