3 Teens Face Trial as Adults in Stabbing Death : Crime: Life terms are possible in the May slaying of an Agoura Hills boy and the wounding of another youth.

Three teen-agers accused of killing one 16-year-old Agoura Hills boy and wounding another will be tried as adults, a judge ruled Thursday.

The three showed no emotion at the decision, remaining as stoic as they had been throughout the four-day hearing. One of their mothers silently wiped away tears.

San Fernando Valley Juvenile Court Commissioner Jack Gold also ordered the teen-agers--Micah Holland, 15, of Thousand Oaks, Chris Velardo, 17, of Oak Park, and Tony Miliotti, 18, of Westlake Village--held without bail in Sylmar Juvenile Hall. Miliotti, who turned 18 on June 2, was 17 when the attack occurred.

Trial in adult court means a conviction could result in a life sentence. The maximum sentence the youths could have received in juvenile court was incarceration until their 25th birthdays.

Arraignment on charges of murder and attempted murder will be scheduled in Malibu Municipal Court, authorities said.

Holland, Velardo and Miliotti are among five teen-agers accused in the May 22 fatal stabbing of James Farris III and the wounding of Michael McLoren during what police say was an attempted robbery in McLoren’s back-yard “clubhouse” in Agoura Hills.

Police said the attack occurred after Farris and McLoren, both 16, refused to open a locked drawer that contained marijuana.

Micah Holland’s brother, Jason Holland of Thousand Oaks, was ordered Thursday in Malibu Municipal Court to stand trial on murder and attempted murder charges. Jason Holland, 18, turned himself in to the Lost Hills Sheriff’s Station on June 11 after eluding authorities for three weeks.

Brandon Wade Hein, 18, of Oak Park was ordered June 7 to stand trial on murder and attempted murder charges in Santa Monica Superior Court.

Calling the crimes sophisticated, Gold declared that Micah Holland, Miliotti and Velardo should stand trial as adults.

“They all got together and were out for no good,” Gold said.

Deputy Dist. Atty. Jeffrey Semow claimed the youths planned to rob McLoren of marijuana and all knew that at least one of them was armed with a knife.

The two Holland brothers, Miliotti and Hein were involved in the fatal fight at the clubhouse, but it is unknown who stabbed Farris and McLoren, authorities said. Velardo, who was friends with McLoren, waited in his pickup truck while the other four jumped McLoren’s fence, seeking marijuana and confronting McLoren, attorneys said.

Defense attorneys claimed Velardo did not know that a robbery was going to occur. Velardo’s attorney, Bruce Jones, said his client “was the equivalent of a taxicab driver.”

But Semow said Velardo had visited McLoren earlier that day. “It is highly improbable that the other four people acted as they did with a common plan and left Mr. Velardo out of the plan,” Semow said.

Although Micah Holland is the youngest defendant in the case, he was the ringleader, according to Semow.

Attorney John Franklin, representing Micah Holland, said the incident “was anything but sophisticated. I think they found it hard to believe. Nobody was more surprised than these kids here.”

During the four-day hearing, defense attorneys challenged the credibility of McLoren, who survived the stabbing.

Franklin claimed that McLoren has changed stories in the course of the investigation. Franklin said McLoren initially stated that the teen-agers demanded a television and videocassette recorder and that all four had knives. He later said the youths demanded marijuana and that it was unclear who had a knife.