- November 18, 2024
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Deputies arrested former Matanzas football player Al’kwazi Spencer and two other teens on robbery charges March 28 after the 18-year-old Spencer and other teens surrounded a 5 Star Pizza delivery driver and ran off with two pizzas and a box of chicken wings.
But they hadn’t, exactly, taken the food by force, according to a Flagler County Sheriff's Office arrest affidavit.
The driver, Crystal Torres, 25, told deputies she’d arrived on Farnum Lane just after midnight when four black teenagers approached her on foot.
One had his hand in his back pocket, and she thought he might have had a weapon, according to the affidavit.
So, according to the affidavit, “she told them that if they were there to rob her, she would just give them the pizza because it wasn’t worth her life.” Then, she “exited the vehicle and presented the pizza, at which time they took it from her hands and ran away.”
She called the Sheriff’s Office, and deputies arrived with a police dog and tracked the suspects to a home on Farver Lane.
A man opened the door and let the deputies in.
When they got to an upstairs bedroom, where Spencer and four other teens were hanging out, they smelled “the odor of a freshly cooked pizza” in the room and “observer pizza crusts in a bowl from pizza slices that had been consumed,” according to the affidavit.
One of the deputies saw a black hoodie in the room with the word “senior” written on it, a piece of clothing Torres had told the deputies one of the pizza-stealing teens had worn.
A 5 Star Pizza box and Styrofoam container in the room were marked with a delivery address on Farnum Lane, according to the affidavit.
Deputies took Spencer for a show-up, and Torres identified him as one of the teens who’d taken the pizza.
Spencer was the only one of the group who wasn’t underage. After deputies read him his Miranda rights, Spencer said that he and two of the other teens were the only ones who met the delivery driver an took the food, according to the affidavit.
Spencer stated that he and the other two teens “took the food from Crystal by putting her in fear of her life with the intent to permanently deprive Crystal Torres and 5 Star Pizza or any other person not the defendant(s) of the property,” according to the affidavit.
Deputies also arrested the other two teens.
The food was valued at $42.80.
