Local News in Brief : Gun-Brandishing Case
A Malibu judge has dismissed a case against a New York City teen-ager charged with displaying a replica gun because it could not be proven that he intended to threaten anyone with it.
Municipal Judge Lawrence Mira dropped one misdemeanor count of displaying an operable firearm in a rude and threatening manner against 19-year-old Robert Kelley Wogan.
Wogan was arrested Nov. 27 after California Highway Patrol officers said they received reports that two men in a green Camaro were pointing a gun at motorists near the intersection of Webb Way and Pacific Coast Highway. Officers found a chrome replica revolver with a four-inch barrel in his car.
Deputy Dist. Atty. Mike Carroll said Tuesday that the case had to be dismissed because the law states that the offender must point the replica weapon with an intent to scare, or must scare, the person at which it was aimed. But “the person who was supposed to be scared didn’t see it,” Carroll said.
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