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Posted on Mon, Jul 19, 2010 : 4:31 p.m.

17-year-old Ypsilanti man charged with 7 felonies in carjacking, assault cases

By Amalie Nash

A 17-year-old man faces seven felony charges after Ypsilanti police say he assaulted and attempted to carjack two people in separate incidents Friday night.

Justin Deonta Biddles is accused of punching a woman in the arm when she refused to give up her car keys, then breaking into an elderly man's home and assaulting him with a broom while demanding his car keys.

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Justin Deonta Biddles

In the first case, he was arraigned on charges of assault with intent to rob while unarmed, carjacking and attempted home invasion. In the second case, he faces charges of armed robbery, carjacking, home invasion, and malicious destruction of property.

Police say Biddles went to the Forrest Knoll apartment complex late Friday and first approached a woman who was retrieving an item from her vehicle. She told police he demanded her keys and punched her in the arm as she refused and shut the door.

Minutes later, Biddles is accused of forcing his way into an apartment where a 79-year-old man was sleeping and assaulting him while threatening to kill him if he didn't give up his keys.

Police say Biddles ordered the man outside, where the man was able to get into a large delivery truck. Biddles began smashing the windshield and driver's window of the truck, spraying shattered glass on him, police said. The man suffered facial and head injuries.

Biddles was arrested near the scene by responding officers.

He is being held at the Washtenaw County Jail on $250,000 bond and faces up to life in prison if convicted of the armed robbery and carjacking charges.

A preliminary hearing was set for July 27.

Comments

Goodphotographer

Wed, Jul 21, 2010 : 3:37 p.m.

17 years old... Those are some heavy charges. It does look like him on the Videos linked below. If the videos are of the suspect he best hope the Judge is as blind as he would hope Justice to be. 250K bond is reasonable until proven guilty. Why take chances till the Jury sorts this thing out? No delivery van needed here.

Milton Shift

Tue, Jul 20, 2010 : 9:24 p.m.

Got to watch out in southeast Michigan. Anything that's not bolted down into 10ft of cement is gone in no time.

seldon

Tue, Jul 20, 2010 : 5:20 p.m.

@Ricebnr: No, I agree. And the stats on them are pretty compelling too. Very few abuses.

Ricebrnr

Tue, Jul 20, 2010 : 11:19 a.m.

(Which is kind of a shame, as I'm generally ambivalent toward them.) There are no atheists in foxholes, eh? When you have a kitchen fire is a poor time to consider hitting Lowes for an extinguisher....

seldon

Tue, Jul 20, 2010 : 10:19 a.m.

(Which is kind of a shame, as I'm generally ambivalent toward them.)

seldon

Tue, Jul 20, 2010 : 10:17 a.m.

Guys like this are a good argument for concealed carry laws.

dading dont delete me bro

Tue, Jul 20, 2010 : 5:30 a.m.

alledgedly another fine contributor to society's future.

joemoe

Mon, Jul 19, 2010 : 9:30 p.m.

Amazing what you can find with Google. Also found his MySpace profile. Check out some of his rap videos. http://www.myspace.com/mydougie_yahoocom

John of Saline

Mon, Jul 19, 2010 : 4:23 p.m.

Google his name, it appears on a court docket from earlier this month.