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LEFT: Elvin Yamil Pagan; RIGHT: Stephanie Trimble
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Two people were arrested early Thursday in connection with an East Naples drive-by shooting where the shooter fired 10 rounds at three teenagers riding their bicycles home from a friend’s apartment.
Elvin Yamil Pagan, 28, and Stephanie Rose Trimble, 24, both of 6355 Vista Garden Way, Apt. B, East Naples, were arrested about 12:30 a.m.
Pagan was charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon without intent to kill. Trimble was charged with obstruction of an officer.
The attack occurred about 6:15 p.m. on Wednesday when brothers Ben Jean, 15, and Pierre Jean, 13, and their friend Ruben Hernandez, 13, were returning from a friend’s home in the College Park Apartments off of Rattlesnake-Hammock Road, the Collier County Sheriff’s Office reported.
The three teens were riding their bicycles west on Rattlesnake-Hammock Road near the Parker Hammock Road intersection when the male passenger in a dark green car stared at them in passing. The car pulled a U-turn, approached the teens and stopped.
A man then held a gun out the window and shot 10 times at the teens, reports said.
No one was shot, and the teens fled on their bicycles. Ben and Pierre’s 17-year-old brother, Michael Jean, said the boys had no idea who the shooter or the driver were.
“They didn’t know them at all,” Michael Jean said.
The boys returned to the Jean home on Warren Street in East Naples where they met with investigators. Pierre told investigators that the shooter had a “crazy” look on his face, and looked like he was on drugs, reports said.
The boys described the driver of the car and the shooter, the Sheriff’s Office reported.
Michael Jean said Pierre was scared and crying, but Ben was less frightened.
“He wasn’t really that scared because he thought it was a paint ball gun at first,” Michael Jean said.
Based on the description given by the teens, detectives returned to the area of the crime and were able to track down the car, a dark green Saturn, which was parked outside Pagan and Trimble’s residence on Vista Garden Way, authorities said.
A check of state Department of Motor Vehicles records revealed the Saturn was registered to Trimble, reports said. The teens’ description of the driver resembled Trimble’s photo on her driver’s license. When detectives knocked on Trimble’s apartment door, she answered and a man matching the description of the shooter, Pagan, was inside, reports said.
Detectives also found a black, semi-automatic handgun under Trimble’s bed, which was registered to Trimble.
When speaking with detectives, Pagan said he was concerned he had shot someone and asked if anyone was dead, reports said.
“I never thought that would happen around here,” Michael Jean said. “I just hope they get put in jail.”
Ben and Pierre’s mother, Guerda Jean, said the boys are doing fine, but the shooting concerns her.
“I talked to them,” she said in broken English. “Don’t go to that friend’s house no more.”
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goin to heck in a handbasket we are!
#1 Posted by trehuger on June 12, 2008 at 8:19 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Now if we can get them in front of Judge Hardt we won't have to worry about this dynamic duo.
#2 Posted by judgewatcher on June 12, 2008 at 9:22 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Going to prison HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
We need harsher punishments for this type of crime
#3 Posted by NeezDutz on June 12, 2008 at 9:50 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Oh they're just some kids having fun! Just give them a few months probation...
#4 Posted by CutthroatConservative on June 12, 2008 at 10:27 a.m. (Suggest removal)
I figured they'd get caught with the awesome description given to the CCSO. Kudos!
Send 'em away. We don't need scum like that on our streets!
#5 Posted by Ironside on June 12, 2008 at 10:32 a.m. (Suggest removal)
What would be their motive do this? Target practice? Did they even know these boys? These are dangerous people just riding along shooting out the window. I guess they were bored and didn't have anything else to do. Incinerate or deport them to L.A. Put hostile gang marking on them and drop them off in the other gangs territory after putting the word out they came to make trouble. And be sure to give some loaded guns only don't tell them they are loaded with blanks.
#6 Posted by ernstruntz on June 12, 2008 at 11:10 a.m. (Suggest removal)
What a couple! Couple of losers!!! Lock them up for good. No one needs trash like that around.
#7 Posted by minxy1 on June 12, 2008 at 12:29 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Actually, that should be a mandatory 20.
10-20-LIFE Mandates a minimum 10 year prison term for attempted felonies in which the offender possesses a firearm.
Mandates a minimum 20 year prison term when the firearm is discharged.
Mandates a minimum 25 years to LIFE if someone is injured or killed.
#8 Posted by mthalo on June 12, 2008 at 1:43 p.m. (Suggest removal)
I wonder why the female only got charged with obstruction and not accessory charges.
#9 Posted by Neal on June 12, 2008 at 2:12 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Naples is Miami . . . except for 34102 ;-)
#10 Posted by bicoastal on June 12, 2008 at 2:37 p.m. (Suggest removal)
They are the type you don't want taking FCAT exams!
#11 Posted by cornandbeans on June 12, 2008 at 4:13 p.m. (Suggest removal)
What immigration problem?
#12 Posted by cousinjed on June 12, 2008 at 4:36 p.m. (Suggest removal)
someone pls take this trash to the curb. we really dont need these types of people in our neighborhood. move back to where u came from! pls NPD keep them locked up. Where r all the under cover cops that speed down Bayshore/thomasson when u need them? What possible reason is there to shoot at teenagers??? teenagers...what possible reason could you have given them to do this????? Stupid people should be transported to Guontanomo for lock up with the suspected terrorists.morons!!
#13 Posted by lmm777 on June 12, 2008 at 4:43 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Hey Imm777, the Supreme Court of the United States of America conferred citizen rights on the miscreants in Gitmo today. Where am I living anyway?
#14 Posted by silverback on June 12, 2008 at 4:55 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Back in the days of Stonehenge those darn Pagan's would sacrifice you at the altar. They really have degenerated when they'll only drive by now.
#15 Posted by cupcake on June 12, 2008 at 5:04 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Now-a-days those darn fairy tale believers would sacrifice you at anyplace and at any time "In the Name of the Lord God Almighty!"
#16 Posted by bicoastal on June 12, 2008 at 5:25 p.m. (Suggest removal)
and bicoastal doesnt mean blood shed.
#17 Posted by SandnSurf on June 12, 2008 at 5:59 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Silverback - I'm not sure where we're living now but I know that the only thing that can save America would be the coming of Jesus Christ himself...and no, liberals, I'm not talking about Obama.
#18 Posted by CutthroatConservative on June 12, 2008 at 6:42 p.m. (Suggest removal)
I say let's throw these "wannabes" in the middle of the projects in Chicago. Let's see how their "no hit" drive-bys go up there.
Freakin' IDIOTS
#19 Posted by FreshFace on June 13, 2008 at 1:05 a.m. (Suggest removal)
HEY ROCKFORD, tell us who,s driveway we are supposed to park our car in after committing a felony. Also, I have a feeling these two did their basic training in Miami.
#20 Posted by uaxed4it on June 13, 2008 at 6:02 a.m. (Suggest removal)
send these loser pieces of trash back to Miami
#21 Posted by floridasteel on June 13, 2008 at 9:03 a.m. (Suggest removal)
what no liberals blaming bush?
#22 Posted by waldini202 on June 13, 2008 at 10:13 a.m. (Suggest removal)
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