Man arrested after recovered 'grill' re-fitted to robbery victim's mouth
Will Greenlee, Treasure Coast Newspapers
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PORT ST. LUCIE — If the grill fits…
A man was linked to a robbery in which another man’s gold grill, or custom-fitted decorative teeth, was stolen after part of the grill turned up at a pawn shop. The victim confirmed it was his, as it was a “perfect fit,” according to recently released records.
Koron Woods, 22, of the 100 block of Camelot Drive in Fort Pierce, was arrested Monday on felony charges of robbery with a deadly weapon, third-degree grand theft, giving false information to a pawnbroker and dealing in stolen property after a Port St. Lucie police investigation into the June incident.
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The 19-year-old victim told police that he and a friend went to a party in the 3400 block of Southwest Princeton Street.
As the party wound down, he said four or five men, who boasted about being from Fort Pierce, punched and kicked him. One of the men hit him in the head and face with a handgun.
The 19-year-old was ordered to give up his 10-karat gold grills. Also taken were his backpack, gold chain, wallet, cash, driver’s license, iPhone and tan suede Michael Jordon retro sneakers.
A woman at the party told police one of the men in the group that robbed the victim gave her his phone number. She knew the man as “Slim.”
Police researched the number and came up with Woods.
Police also learned Woods pawned a gold grill at a business in Fort Pierce a day after the incident.
Police got the grill from the business and took it to the victim.
“(The victim) said the grill looked like his, and when I asked him to put it in his mouth, it was a perfect fit,” records show.
Woods was held Thursday in the St. Lucie County Jail on $400,000 bond, a jail official said.
