Two Northampton teens held in Easthampton armed robbery; two more sought
EASTHAMPTON - Two Northampton teens were ordered held without bail Tuesday and two others remain at large for their alleged involvement in an armed robbery at a Pleasant Street rooming house Monday evening.
David M. Malley, 19, of 942 Bridge Road, Northampton, and Pedro J. Baez, 19, of 73 Barrett St., unit 6203, Northampton, pleaded innocent in Northampton District Court Tuesday to charges of home invasion and larceny over $250. Malley pleaded innocent to additional charges of possessing a firearm without an FID card, improperly storing a firearm and two counts of receiving stolen property valued below $250.
At 5:25 p.m. Monday, four Easthampton police officers were dispatched to 145 Pleasant St., for a report that a man had been robbed at gunpoint by three men while sitting in his apartment with friends, according to police.
The victim reportedly told police that, while in his apartment, he and three friends heard someone knocking on the door of an apartment above them. One of his friends, the victim reported, went upstairs and told three men there that the tenant of that apartment wasn't home.
They followed him back downstairs.
Shortly after his friend re-entered the apartment, the victim told police the three men barged in and brandished two handguns; one was pointed at his friend's back and the other was pushed into the victim's groin.
As the four were held at gunpoint, one of the intruders stole several items off of a table inside the apartment, including an iPod, a PlayStation portable and $80 in cash before the trio fled toward the park area of Pleasant Green, according to court documents.
At 6:47 a.m. Tuesday morning, police executed a search warrant of Malley's home and found a .380 Russian-made semi-automatic pistol, with seven live rounds in the magazine, hidden under his mattress, according to court documents. The search also revealed two black semi-automatic replica pistols and the PlayStation stolen from the victim's apartment, police said.
Judge Richard J. Carey ordered the two men held without bail until their pretrial hearing on Friday.
Owen Boss can be reached at oboss@gazettenet.com.










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