CHESAPEAKE — A man charged with stealing $40 from two children operating a lemonade stand outside their family’s home last month confessed to the crime, according to a court document.
Estaban Santillan, 19, was due in Chesapeake Juvenile and Domestic Relations General District Court on Tuesday for an arraignment but the hearing was postponed until next month. A document in his court file said he was admitted for inpatient psychiatric treatment last week and was expected to remain there for five to seven days. There was no information in the file indicating whether he’s hired an attorney, or has had one appointed for him.
The alleged theft occurred on the afternoon of Aug. 14 on Bells Mill Road, and was captured by home surveillance cameras.
Rebecca Caldwell, 10, and her brother, Josh, 8, were selling lemonade from a table at the end of their driveway when a man pulled up in his car and offered to buy a cup, according to their mother, Annetta Caldwell, who had stepped inside moments before the man arrived. While Rebecca was pouring lemonade into a cup, the man grabbed a glass money jar from the table and fled in his car.