WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – Police arrested three teenagers for assaulting a North Carolina man with his own hedge clippers.
Multiple media outlets reported that Winston-Salem police made the arrests Monday and Tuesday after robbers hit a 53-year-old Winston-Salem man in the head and face Saturday with the clippers.
Police say Billy Lee Brown returned home in the afternoon and caught the three robbing his house. He was transported to a hospital for treatment.
Seventeen-year-old John Henry Brown, 18-year-old Akeem Wilson and 19-year-old Shermain Cortez Moses face charges of robbery with a dangerous weapon, assault with a deadly weapon and felony breaking and entering.
They are being held on $200,000 bond. No attorneys were listed for the suspects.
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