BATON ROUGE — A total of five people have been arrested for an armed robbery and shooting along North Foster Drive in January.
Brandon Hymes Jr., 17, Xavier Jefferson, 17, Eddie Snearl Jr., 17 and Amad Joseph, 18, were all arrested on attempted first-degree murder and armed robbery charges. WBRZ reported that 17-year-old Javen LeBlanc was also arrested for the Jan. 16 robbery.
The five teenagers parked in a nearby parking lot about 30 minutes before the robbery, surveillance footage from a nearby smoke shop showed. Police said that a man arranged to meet up with one of the teens to purchase marijuana. According to an affidavit, the victim had $950 in cash for the purchase…