vape pen<\/a>, police said.<\/p>\nOne of the suspects allegedly lifted his shirt to\u00a0reveal a gun tucked into\u00a0his waistband and demanded the items.<\/p>\n
Police said the men searched the victim\u2019s pockets and took the vape pen. They then demanded his cellphone, but the victim refused to hand it over and told them it had a tracker on it.<\/p>\n
The suspects then got back into the truck and drove away.<\/p>\n
Damarius Jamel Taylor, 18, was among five Florida men charged for robbing a man at gunpoint over a $30 vape pen. Winter Haven Public Safety Department<\/p>\n
Tayshawn Williams, 18, was arrested after police alleged he was involved in the Winter Haven armed robbery. Winter Haven Public Safety Department<\/p>\n
Officers later located the pickup outside a residence, where they spotted several men matching the suspects\u2019 descriptions, according to police.<\/p>\n
When the men saw officers, they ran into the residence and initially refused to come out, police said. Authorities eventually detained the suspects after they exited the home.<\/p>\n
Investigators also interviewed a 17-year-old girl who was riding in the truck during the incident. According to police, she said she had accompanied her boyfriend and his friends to several stores before they\u00a0stopped near a cemetery\u00a0in the area.<\/p>\n
Javon Prince Jackson-Roby, 19, was charged with robbery with a weapon and petit theft in connection with the theft. Winter Haven Public Safety Department<\/p>\n
Martice Spears Jr., 19, was one of the five men police said jumped out of a pickup truck and confronted the victim. Winter Haven Public Safety Department<\/p>\n
Deshawn Antwon Lampkin, 19, was also arrested after police said the group allegedly took the vape and fled the scene. Winter Haven Public Safety Department<\/p>\n
The teen told investigators she did not witness what happened outside the truck but heard yelling.<\/p>\n
She later saw one of the men return to the vehicle holding a green vape pen and say he had \u201cgot the vape,\u201d according to police.<\/p>\n
Authorities arrested Damarius Jamel Taylor, 18, of Avon Park; Tayshawn Williams, 18, of Auburndale; Javon Prince Jackson-Roby, 19, of Avon Park; Martice Spears Jr., 19; and Deshawn Antwon Lampkin, 19.<\/p>\n
The alleged robbery happened Sunday night in Winter Haven as the victim walked home from work. mark \u2013 stock.adobe.com<\/p>\n
All five men were\u00a0charged with robbery with a\u00a0weapon and petit theft, police said.<\/p>\n
Taylor was also arrested on an outstanding warrant from Highlands County.<\/p>\n
Two 17-year-old girls were also charged with resisting arrest without violence in connection with the investigation, according to police.<\/p>\n
One allegedly provided officers with a false birth date, while the other allegedly refused to allow officers into the residence after the suspects ran inside.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Five\u00a0Florida\u00a0men are facing felony robbery charges after police allege they held up a man walking home from work…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317871,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4864,28,30,29,52526,2425,4278,19992],"class_list":["post-317870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-arrests","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-robberies","tag-theft","tag-us-news","tag-vaping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}