Teen Tells Officers of $5,600 Rip-Off--by His Pot Dealer : Crime: He stuns police by coming to station with his father to report armed robbery during attempted buy. He isn’t arrested.

A teen-ager went to the police station this week to report that he was robbed of $5,600--while trying to commit a crime himself.

Startled police took a report from Joseph Stone, 18, who said a man stole his money at gunpoint while he was trying to buy marijuana.

“We’re not planning to charge him with any crime because a crime wasn’t actually committed by him,” Police Lt. Dan Johnson said. “We were surprised that he even showed up at the station to report it.”

Stone, a Huntington Beach resident, was accompanied by his father about 2 p.m. Monday when he arrived at the police station to report that a man named John had robbed him of $5,600, which he had intended to use to purchase marijuana, Johnson said.

The heist was pulled about 11:30 a.m. the same day, when the teen-ager agreed to meet John at Huntington Central Park near Golden West Street and Slater Avenue to buy three pounds of marijuana for $1,400, Johnson said.

Stone, who said he brought $5,600 to the appointment, got into the man’s car to examine his purchase and was robbed at gunpoint. The man took the money and drove off with Stone still in the car, he told police.

As the driver slowed to make a turn at Springdale Street and Slater Avenue, Stone jumped out of the car and went home, police said.

“He said he bought marijuana twice before from John,” Johnson said. “He said he was going to sell the marijuana because he needed the money.”

The robber was described as white, 20 to 25 years old, and 5-foot-8 to 5-foot-10-inches tall with medium build and medium-length blond hair. He was driving a 1985 or 1986 Ford Mustang and brandishing a blue steel semiautomatic handgun, police said.