Two teens accused of stealing cellphones from five other teens in Burlingame’s Washington Park last fall received jail time and were ordered to pay restitution Wednesday as part of the plea deal they took in February, according to the San Mateo County District Attorney’s Office.
Having pleaded no contest to felony robbery, Belmont resident Brandon Sanchez, 18, and Foster City resident Anakin Taylor, 18, faced up to one year in county jail. Taylor was sentenced to 360 days in county jail and will receive 357 days credit for time served while Sanchez received 99 days in county jail and will receive nine days credit for time served, according to prosecutors.
On Oct. 8, Sanchez, Taylor and a juvenile accomplice approached five teens at the park, asking them if they wanted to purchase Xanax pills from them. After some of the teens agreed to a sale, the trio told the teens they had a gun with them and ordered them to put their cellphones on the ground, according to prosecutors.
When the teens complied, the trio grabbed the phones and told them to run. The five victims allegedly fled to a nearby Lions Club hall, where they alerted police of the crime, according to prosecutors.
Just days later, police officers were able to find and arrest the three teens at a Five Guys restaurant on Primrose Road using the iPhone’s “Find My iPhone” function to locate at least one of the devices. All five of the cellphones were found in Taylor’s backpack when the group was arrested and no gun was ever recovered, though a $300 speaker and a jacket stolen from two teens about an hour earlier were found with the teens at the time of their arrest, according to prosecutors.
Having remained in custody on $50,000 bail, Taylor only has days left in his jail sentence, while Sanchez, who was out of custody on a $50,000 bail bond, will have some three months left in his sentence, according to prosecutors.
Both Sanchez and Taylor received four years of supervised probation and will be required to stay away from the five teen victims and Washington Park, according to prosecutors.
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