NEWARK

-- Two teenagers were arrested in Newark Sunday after police said they used a gun stolen in South Carolina to rob a Somerset County man and then fled in a vehicle that had been carjacked earlier in the day.

The 43-year-old victim was robbed by a group of assailants after getting out of his car on North Munn Avenue just after 4 p.m., Newark Public Safety Director Anthony Ambrose announced. Ambrose said the assailants then fled in a gray Hyundai that had been reported carjacked in East Orange.

"Officers from the 1st and 4th Precinct quickly located the Hyundai near Georgia King Village and one of the suspects, 19-year-old Trevon McCoy, who was walking inside of the complex with two other males," Ambrose said. "Officers found items taken during the robbery on McCoy and evidence believed to have been taken during other robberies."

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A short time later, a 17-year-old East Orange boy was arrested for carrying a loaded gun while trying to sell the victim's phone in a store on East Market Street. Police said the gun had been reported stolen in Richland County, S.C.

McCoy and the juvenile, whose name was not released, were charged with robbery, conspiracy, receiving stolen property and weapons possession.



Ambrose said a second 19-year-old, Kenyon Esannason, was also arrested in the course of the investigation, but for outstanding warrants out of Newark and Fairfield, not in connection with the Sunday robbery.

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