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Police said when the two men were questioned about the robbery, the failed to mention that it took place during a drug deal.

(SUN NEWS FILE)

WESTLAKE, Ohio -- A Bay Village man who told police that he and a friend had been robbed -- but failed to tell reveal that the robbery took place during a drug deal -- appeared in Rocky River Municipal Court on Tuesday.

Police said Sebastian Wozniak and another man were robbed when they tried to sell marijuana to a group of teenagers. When police questioned him and the other man about the robbery, they neglected to say that the theft took place during an attempted drug deal, police said.

Wozniak was charged with trafficking marijuana, obstructing justice and possessing criminal tools. Those charges were bound over to a Cuyahoga County grand jury, but were eventually returned to Rocky River Municipal Court and reduced to misdemeanors. He pleaded guilty to the reduced charges and on Tuesday the case was set for sentencing.

Klier faced charges of trafficking marijuana and obstructing justice. Both charges have been bound over to a Cuyahoga County grand jury. The charges were returned to Rocky River Municipal Court and reduced to misdemeanor trafficking and attempted trafficking.

As part of a plea deal, the trafficking charges were dropped, and Klier pleaded no contest to attempted trafficking charges.

According to police, Wozniak, 20, and Anthony Klier, 22, of Avon Lake, met a group of teenagers in the parking lot of a Westlake Taco Bell on Sept. 4 to practice medieval sword-fighting.

"But that’s clearly not what ended up happening," said Capt. Guy Turner, public information officer for the Westlake police department.

Klier and Wozniak got into a car with the teenagers to sell them $80 worth of marijuana, but one of the teenagers pepper-sprayed Wozniak, took the marijuana and fled, according to a criminal complaint. Wozniak and Klier contacted police and said they had been robbed by a group of teenagers, but didn’t say what the teenagers had stolen.

Police examined Wozniak’s phone records and interviewed witnesses and determined that he and Klier had met the teenagers with the intent to sell them marijuana.