Teh One Who Knocks
03-23-2018, 10:47 AM
By Carlos R. Munoz - Herald Tribune
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MANATEE COUNTY — Two women, one wielding a machete and the other a large kitchen knife, carjacked a Dodge Charger from a man they met on Facebook and led authorities on a chase in Palmetto, a Manatee County Sheriff’s report said.
Felicity Wieman, 17, and her friend Brittany Pinkston, 18, later crashed the car and were arrested by Palmetto police. They confessed in a post-Miranda interview with detectives to their involvement in the car theft, the report said.
Pinkston was taken to the Manatee County Jail and charged with carjacking with a deadly weapon, possession of a controlled substance and possession of a controlled substance without a prescription. Police found 41 Xanax pills in “plain view” along with a cut plastic straw and two empty baggies they said were “consistent with narcotics usage,” the report said.
Sheriff’s Office spokesman said Wieman, who is a minor, was charged with felony carjacking and taken to a juvenile detention center. He was unsure if she was still in custody.
Pinkston is being held on $75,550 bond.
The Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office said an “attempt to locate” was issued for Pinkston at about 8 a.m. Thursday morning after Pinkston’s mother reported her missing since Friday. She made a plea to find her daughter and Wieman on Facebook. She was informed that her daughter had been arrested.
According to a sheriff’s report, a woman known as Felicity Marie on Facebook became acquainted with a Fort Myers man through Facebook Messenger three weeks ago. They decided to meet several times in Palmetto.
Felicity Marie, later identified by detectives as Felicity Wieman, and her friend Pinkston stayed at the man’s house in Fort Myers for several days, where he allowed them to use a car until they decided it was time to come home.
The man, his brother and father took the women back in his brother’s white Dodge Charger, but when they reached Manatee County, they stopped to use a bathroom at a Pilot gas station.
While the man, whom Wieman first met on Facebook, and his father went inside the gas station, the women asked to get an item from their bag in the trunk, the report said. They returned with a machete and a large kitchen knife and pointed them at the man’s brother — the driver — and told him to get out of the car and give them the keys.
The women allegedly drove away with Wieman driving.
The Palmetto Police Department located the car about three hours later and a pursuit ensued.
The chase ended when the Charger crashed in the 2400 block of 17th Street West in Palmetto and the two were taken into custody.
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MANATEE COUNTY — Two women, one wielding a machete and the other a large kitchen knife, carjacked a Dodge Charger from a man they met on Facebook and led authorities on a chase in Palmetto, a Manatee County Sheriff’s report said.
Felicity Wieman, 17, and her friend Brittany Pinkston, 18, later crashed the car and were arrested by Palmetto police. They confessed in a post-Miranda interview with detectives to their involvement in the car theft, the report said.
Pinkston was taken to the Manatee County Jail and charged with carjacking with a deadly weapon, possession of a controlled substance and possession of a controlled substance without a prescription. Police found 41 Xanax pills in “plain view” along with a cut plastic straw and two empty baggies they said were “consistent with narcotics usage,” the report said.
Sheriff’s Office spokesman said Wieman, who is a minor, was charged with felony carjacking and taken to a juvenile detention center. He was unsure if she was still in custody.
Pinkston is being held on $75,550 bond.
The Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office said an “attempt to locate” was issued for Pinkston at about 8 a.m. Thursday morning after Pinkston’s mother reported her missing since Friday. She made a plea to find her daughter and Wieman on Facebook. She was informed that her daughter had been arrested.
According to a sheriff’s report, a woman known as Felicity Marie on Facebook became acquainted with a Fort Myers man through Facebook Messenger three weeks ago. They decided to meet several times in Palmetto.
Felicity Marie, later identified by detectives as Felicity Wieman, and her friend Pinkston stayed at the man’s house in Fort Myers for several days, where he allowed them to use a car until they decided it was time to come home.
The man, his brother and father took the women back in his brother’s white Dodge Charger, but when they reached Manatee County, they stopped to use a bathroom at a Pilot gas station.
While the man, whom Wieman first met on Facebook, and his father went inside the gas station, the women asked to get an item from their bag in the trunk, the report said. They returned with a machete and a large kitchen knife and pointed them at the man’s brother — the driver — and told him to get out of the car and give them the keys.
The women allegedly drove away with Wieman driving.
The Palmetto Police Department located the car about three hours later and a pursuit ensued.
The chase ended when the Charger crashed in the 2400 block of 17th Street West in Palmetto and the two were taken into custody.