A 16-year-old Conestoga boy was reportedly beaten and robbed in the driveway of his home early Friday morning, Southern Regional Police said.
The teenager told Cpl. Rob Burger that two men in another car followed him from Willow Street to his house on Conestoga Drive around 4 a.m.
The passenger got out of the car, struck the victim in the head and arm with a pipe and cut him on the back of the head with a knife, police said. He also demanded money and prescription pain medication.
The teenager gave the robber $61 in cash, compact discs, pain medication and a prescription for more medication. He was treated and released at Lancaster Regional Medical Center.
Police described the suspect as a Hispanic male in his mid 20s, about 5-10 or 5-11, 160 to 180 pounds, with an extremely thin mustache and a goatee. The car was described as a black or green 1990 Honda Civic.
Southern Regional Police Department members were also dispatched to the following incidents recently:
• On Thursday morning, at around 2, police cited Derreck L. Strausbaugh, 18, of Chadwick Circle, with marijuana possession and underage drinking after they were called to investigate a report of suspicious males in the area of Cobblestone Drive, in the Willow Street area of Pequea Township.
• Last Monday, Thomas Wade Showalter, 36, of 41 W. Farnum St., Lancaster, was charged with terroristic threats, simple assault and disorderly conduct after police were called to a domestic dispute in the first block of Cobblestone Drive, Willow Street, Pequea Township.
The resident and two witnesses told police that Showalter came to the house around 5 p.m. and threatened the victim and used obscenities in the presence of small children.
• On June 15, Southern Regional Police were dispatched to a property in the 100 block of Green Hill Road, Conestoga, for a report of vandalism to a cornfield. Police calculated about two acres of corn had been flattened, with an estimated loss of $2,610.
Officer Ryan Lawrence followed the tire tracks to the home of a neighbor, James R. Abromatis, of the 5700 block of River Road, Conestoga, who said he believed he had a right of way through the property. He was cited for criminal trespass and agricultural crop destruction.
• Police charged two 17-year-old boys with stealing a go-cart from a Pequea Township property in mid-June and then storing it at a 16-year-old friend's property.
Larry Hertzog, of Baumgardner Road, told police his go-cart had been stolen, and police noticed the teenagers playing with a go-cart, which turned out to be Hertzog's.
The 16-year-old boy, from West Penn Grant Road, Pequea Township, was cited for receiving stolen property, police said.
The 17-year-old boys, one from Bethesda Church Road, Holtwood, and one from West Penn Grant Road, Willow Street, Pequea Township, were each charged with theft and criminal conspiracy, police said.
Staff writer Janet Kelley can be reached at jkelley@LNPnews.com or 481-6026.
