In re E.S. CA2/8
In October 2014, a petition was filed to declare defendant, a juvenile, a ward of court, based on his commission of a robbery. (Pen. Code, § 211.) In January 2015, the petition was amended to allege commission of attempted robbery. (Pen. Code, §§ 664/211.) Defendant admitted the petition as amended; the court sustained it; and defendant was placed home on probation.
Defendant’s probation went reasonably well until he committed the instant offense in September 2016. Defendant and his companion, identified only as Louie, went to a local mall with the plan to steal something to get money. They spotted a family sitting in the food court with their cell phones on their tables, and agreed to take the phones. Defendant grabbed the daughter’s phone from one table; Louie grabbed the mother’s phone from an adjacent table. They ran off with the phones. The family’s father gave chase and was joined by two mall security guards. As the thieves ran from the mall, Louie told def
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