UPDATE: Two more suspects are under arrests and two more stolen guns have been found in connection with recent car break-ins.
The co-defendants, 20-year-old Trayvion Stephens and 14-year-old John Nelson, are both from Deltona. They are each charged with armed burglary of a conveyance and grand theft of a firearm. Nelson is already a convicted felon.
Holly Hill, FL - A 16-year-old teen who already has eight felony charges on his record is arrested while carrying a gun stolen during a car break-in. Jeremiah Fuller was arrested by the Volusia County Sheriff's Office Crime Suppression Team on Wednesday night (June 19).
Fuller was arrested around 10 p.m. after he left the Blue Tide Apartments at 311 Riverside Drive in Holly Hill. He ran from members of the CST into the road in front of a moving patrol vehicle. Fuller was hit but only had minor injuries and refused medical treatment. He was carrying a Glock handgun that had been reported stolen from an unlocked vehicle in Deltona on June 13.
Fuller's arrest on multiple counts of armed burglary, burglary, and grand theft firearm prompted Sheriff Mike Chitwood to call on juvenile judges in Volusia County to do more to prevent prolific juvenile offenders from reoffending without significant consequences.
“Our juvenile judges need to stop being friends to these thugs, and start handing down some real consequences for their actions,” Sheriff Chitwood said. “As long as juveniles get off easy for their crimes, we’ll continue to see them pillaging our community over and over. Maybe it will take someone getting killed in a gunpoint robbery before our juvenile court system takes action.”
Fuller is charged with two counts of armed burglary, two counts of grand theft firearm, four counts of burglary of a conveyance, carrying a concealed firearm and possession with intent to sell a synthetic narcotic. He is already on probation for three counts of burglary, committed his first crime at the age of 13 and has been arrested 8 times on felony charges since then.
