Chase turns sour for lemonade stand robber

Tue Jun 17, 5:12 PM ET

Call it a lemonade standoff. A girl whose lemonade stand was robbed of $17.50 chased the suspect into a nearby home and called police, who spent nearly an hour trying to coax the man into surrendering.

"The guy came up and was, like, 'Give me your money,'" said 12-year-old Dominique Morefield, who was running the lemonade stand with a group of friends. "I was shocked. It was just my immediate reaction to chase after him."

Dominique dashed after the man who ran into a house, and then she called police. Officers eventually persuaded Steve Tryon, 18, to come outside after 45 minutes and arrested him on a preliminary felony charge of robbery.

Tryon made an initial appearance in Superior Court on Tuesday and was ordered to be held in the Vigo County Jail on $50,000 bond. He will be formally charged Friday, county Prosecutor Terry Modesitt said.

A telephone message seeking comment was left at the office of Michael Wright, a public defender assigned to represent Tryon.

"I didn't think anyone would come up to a lemonade stand and steal. That's really low," 12-year-old Fred Erstine said.

The kids said they would continue to sell lemonade, but with an adult's supervision.

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a future darwin award winner. he must of taken the short bus to school

I watched the footage of the cops bringing this dirt bag out of the house!

Now he can sit in jail and brag to his new friends how he staged the most daring robbery of all time, was tracked down by a little girl and held off the cops for an hour by hiding in his house. What a moron!

Wanna bet he comes out of jail with a new outlook and boobs on his back????

Nope, but I'll guarantee if he spends enough time in jail, he'll come out nice and trained so the next time it won't be a Lemonade stand.

Yep ... 3 squares, a roof, a rack and all the training you could ever want. Makes me wanna puke