A Greenwood man was arrested after police said he helped lock a man in a vehicle, punched him and was present when a juvenile threatened the man with a knife and gun.
Dawson J. Hoover, 18, 1730 Blue Grass Parkway, was arrested on charges of robbery, auto theft and possession of marijuana.
A man reported at 12:30 a.m. Feb. 7 that a juvenile knocked on his bedroom window in the 1800 block of Meridian Street in Greenwood and asked him to come to his car. The juvenile, Hoover and another man then locked the vehicle, according to a report from the Greenwood Police Department.
The juvenile demanded that the victim give him all of his things or he would be shot. Hoover and the other man began punching the victim on his face and body. The juvenile slapped the victim with a knife, covered his face with a jacket, pushed his head into a seat in the vehicle and put something the victim believed to be a gun against the back of his neck, according to the report.
The juvenile then left the vehicle, went to the bedroom window and threatened to shoot a woman if she did not give him money. An undetermined amount of money and a cell phone was between both altercations, the report said.
Officers went to the juvenile’s home where they discovered the juvenile had cut up equipment that was being used to monitor him because he was on house arrest, according to the report.
Police later stopped the vehicle driven by Hoover near County Road 75 East and Worthsville Road in Greenwood. Officers found marijuana on Hoover and a knife in the vehicle. The vehicle Hoover was driving belonged to a relative and Hoover did not have permission to take it. Officers searched the area for the juvenile and the other man involved, but were unable to find them, according to the report.
Hoover was taken to the Johnson County Jail and held on $18,200 bond.
