FORT MYERS – A 12-year-old boy is facing serious charges after being accused of armed robbery in Fort Myers.<\/p>\n
The Lee County Sheriff’s Office says the boy has been using Schandler Hall Community Park as a place to rob other kids.<\/p>\n
Witnesses say the boy has a history of stealing bikes and threatening bystanders to keep quiet. Many kids were too scared to speak on camera.<\/p>\n
Victims reported incidents as early as last week, with the boy allegedly robbing them at knifepoint at or near the park.<\/p>\n
According to the arrest report, he attempted to rob two kids. One managed to escape, but the other handed over a backpack, AirPods, designer cologne, a school computer, clothes and cash.<\/p>\n
The boy is charged with two counts of robbery with a weapon. He was arrested on Friday morning and is currently being held on an immigration hold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT MYERS – A 12-year-old boy is facing serious charges after being accused of armed robbery in Fort…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84208,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,28,897,7692,48686],"class_list":{"0":"post-90081","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cape-coral","8":"tag-cape-coral","9":"tag-cape-coral-headlines","10":"tag-cape-coral-news","11":"tag-florida","12":"tag-fort-myers","13":"tag-lee-county-sheriff","14":"tag-schandler-hall-community-park"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90081","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=90081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}