Channel 11 Chief Investigator Rick Earle learned that a teenager arrested on Tuesday and charged in connection with a shooting on the South Side earlier this month was previously arrested by Pittsburgh Police in December.
But sources said he was released because there was no place to put him.
Since the closing of Allegheny County’s only juvenile detention center, it’s been a troubling pattern throughout the county.
Delvon Dobbins, 16, was arrested by Pittsburgh police in Zone 3 for a burglary. Sources said Dobbins, who was charged as a juvenile, also had a toy cap gun on him.
Just last week, 11 investigates obtained exclusive video of an officer who said Dobbins wouldn’t be quiet so he pushed him into a wall while he was handcuffed and shackled back at the Zone 3 police station in Allentown.
Today, that same teen was arrested and charged as an adult with allegedly shooting and wounding a store employee who was taking out garbage on the South Side on Carson Street earlier this month.