Teenagers accused of robbery

Two brothers are accused of robbing an Oak Harbor teenager and kicking his dog.

Two brothers are accused of robbing an Oak Harbor teenager, trying to extort him, pushing him into bushes and kicking his dog on Aug. 9, according to court documents.

Prosecutors charged the brothers, who are 15 and 17 years old, in Island County Superior Court Oct. 24 with robbery in the second degree, which is a felony. They are scheduled to be arraigned Nov. 6.

The 15-year-old victim told police that he was walking his dog on Northwest Cherry Loop when he encountered the brothers, who came out of the bushes at him, according to a report by an Oak Harbor police officer. A third boy appeared to be acting as a lookout.

The juvenile suspects grabbed the boy as he tried to walk past and cornered him in the bushes. They accused him of snitching about something that had happened at City Beach the month prior, but the boy didn’t know what they were talking about.

The boy said that the older boy grabbed him by the throat and told him that they would “jump through his bedroom window and kill him” if he didn’t give them $100 every Friday, the officer wrote. They went through his pockets and took $20, pushed him into the bushes and kicked his dog, the report states.

The boy said the suspects kept their hands in fanny packs, making him think they had guns.

The police photographed scratches on the victim’s chest, neck and hands.

The younger of the two juvenile suspects was also charged this week with assaulting a student at the Oak Harbor Skate Park on Oct. 6, court documents state.

In that case, the 15-year-old suspect was charged with assault in the fourth degree.

The 16-year-old victim told police that he was lured to the skate park by a girl on Snapchat. He arrived to find he had been “set up” and a group of people were there to fight. One of the boys attacked him and they fought. After the fight broke up, the 15-year-old suspect suddenly jumped in and punched the victim many times in the head, the police report states.

The Whidbey News-Times generally does not name juvenile suspects in non-homicide cases.