HANCOCK COUNTY — An Indianapolis teenager has been arrested and charged with armed robbery after a Greenfield juvenile had his phone stolen at gunpoint in November.
Sao Sorsor, 17, 5000 block of Trafalger Lane, Indianapolis, was taken into custody Monday, Dec. 2, and charged with a Level 3 felony count of armed robbery. He also faces three other lesser charges.
According to a probable cause affidavit, a teenager from Greenfield had contacted Sorsor via SnapChat to purchase a cellphone from him. Instead, the boy was robbed Nov. 18 by three men in a car on Center Street near the Pennsy Trail.
The victim told Greenfield Police Department investigators that when they parked the car, the front-seat passenger turned around and had a gun in his hand and cocked the lever on it, the affidavit said. The victim told police the suspects ordered him to give up his cell phone after unlocking it and re-setting it to factory settings.
The front-seat passenger did most of the talking, the affidavit stated. The victim was able to identify him via two photos from SnapChat.
The next day, the victim informed police he was still able to use an app that was still on his stolen phone to attempt and locate it, the affidavit said. The victim told police the app had indicated the phone was on West Lake North Drive in Indianapolis. Greenfield officers, however, could not locate the phone.
On Saturday, Nov. 26, Greenfield officers received an email from the Marion County Superior Court Probation Department. The SnapChat photos, which had been shared with other agencies, was of Sao Sorsor, the Marion County sources said. Sorsor was currently on electronic monitoring through Marion County, the affidavit said.
A data analyst with the Greenfield Police Department provided officers with a report showing the whereabouts of Sorsor during the time frame of the armed robbery. The report showed Sorsor had traveled to Greenfield and went to the Broadway Flats apartments complex, where the victim lives, the affidavit said.
Greenfield officers were able to locate Sorsor through Marion County Community Corrections, and his location in Indianapolis led them to the same place the phone pinged the night it was stolen, at the intersection of Trafalger Lane and West Lake North Drive in Indianapolis, the affidavit said. The location is in an apartment complex in Wayne Township in western Marion County.
With the help of officers from the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department, Greenfield officials were able to arrest Sorsor. After being booked into the Hancock County Jail earlier this week, Sorsor was transferred to the Delaware County Juvenile Detention Center. He was out on bond in Marion County on a Level 4 felony charge of burglary.
He is being charged as an adult in both Marion and Hancock counties.
Sorsor is scheduled for a pretrial conference in Hancock County Superior Court 1 at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 8.
GPD officials said Sorsor for now is the only person being charged, but the investigation is still under way.
