Four teenagers accused of aggravated robbery

Ashlee Burns | Corpus Christi

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Four teens were taken into custody Sunday morning after police say they committed an armed robbery on North Padre Island and fled in a stolen pickup that crashed on Corpus Christi's Southside.

Officers were dispatched about 7:30 a.m. to North Padre Island where a victim told Corpus Christi police the teens demanded his wallet at gunpoint, Police Lt. Michael Pena said.

The victim fired shots at the teenagers' red Ford pickup truck, which was stolen from the 1700 block of Larkwood the night before the robbery, Pena said.

The teens then fled the scene and were pursued by officers to the southside of town from 3100 Dunbarton Oak Street to Snowgoose Road and Timbergate Drive, where the pickup struck a police unit and a light pole.

The driver of the vehicle, 18-year-old James Korges, fled the scene on foot and was caught a short distance from the crash, Pena said.

Korges faces charges of aggravated robbery, aggravated assault of a deadly weapon, unlawful carrying of a weapon, aggravated kidnapping, evading arrest with a motor vehicle and evading arrest on foot.

Korges' was booked into Nueces County Jail on Sunday. His bail was set at $1.38 million.

The other three teens - a 15-year-old girl, a 14-year-old girl and a 15-year-old boy - were detained at the site of the crash, Pena added.

The three face charges of aggravated robbery and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.

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