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Last of Dairy Queen robbers gets probation

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By the Lincoln Journal Star

Tuesday, Jan 13, 2009 - 05:27:09 pm CST

The last of a group of teenagers who robbed a Lincoln Dairy Queen in May was sentenced Tuesday to probation.

Janae Haleem, 20, was given two years of intensive supervised probation at the Work Ethic Camp in McCook for being an accessory to the crime.

Haleem drove the getaway car, according to police.

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At her sentencing Tuesday, she apologized for what happened.

Police say three female employees opened the back door of the business at 614 N. 66th St. around 10:50 p.m. on May 14 for a smoke break when three people wearing bandannas ran at them.

One of the robbers threatened them with a knife, while the other two held them down. Then they left with cash.

Police arrested a 16-year-old Dairy Queen employee who they said planned the crime, Tanesha Lucht, Joseph Haase, Haleem and a 14-year-old boy.

Lancaster County District Judge Jeffre Cheuvront sentenced the former employee, now 17, to three years on probation and sent her to the Work Ethic Camp. Lucht got three years probation and Haase 18 months intensive supervised probation.

The 14-year-old was sent to the Youth Rehabilitation and Treatment Center in Kearney.

In court Tuesday, Cheuvront told Haleem maybe he was giving her the chance on probation because if he sent her to prison he would always wonder if he had done the right thing.

But, if she messes up while on probation and gets resentenced, he said he won’t wonder as much.


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Rick M wrote on January 13, 2009 5:41 pm:
" Oh, I'm sure that HARSH sentence will teach them a lesson.
and you people wonder WHY these kids do these crimes.... because there is no real punishment.
Oh, but I'm sure the real explaination will be that the prison's and jail's are all full... full of the DRUG people...
Who says crime doesn't pay.... "
Soft On Crime wrote on January 13, 2009 5:45 pm:
" Soft on violent crime again. "If" she messes up? you mean WHEN she messes up again, which won't be long. Haleem should have gone in front of Doyle, she'd have hammered that little thuggette straight to jail. "
Gerard Harbison wrote on January 13, 2009 5:51 pm:
" Probation for armed robbery. Lovely. It's no wonder we now have at least a couple of armed robberies every day.

When is Cheuvront's retention election? I think he's earned a spell in private practice. "
lincolnite wrote on January 13, 2009 5:52 pm:
" Probation sucks, but they deserved it "
Steve wrote on January 13, 2009 5:59 pm:
" He did the wrong thing. Something like this deserves some jail time; juvenile or not. Sixteen and older kids are old enough to know right from wrong, and this type of thing (threatening with a knife) is not only traumatic for the victims, but potentially deadly. What if they resisted? What would the perps do then? What if the victims were armed themselves, or a passerby with a carry permit felt the need to stop a possible murder? Jail, jail, jail! "
reality check wrote on January 13, 2009 7:51 pm:
" Either the laws need to change or different judges need to be enstated. Obviously these petty 'sentences' are not enough. You can't just point a finger and tell them "no, that's a bad boy. don't do that again!" Teenager or not, they are CRIMINALS! Gee, here's a concept: harsher penalties and maybe the crime rate would drop. "
LAA wrote on January 13, 2009 8:29 pm:
" Well remember those names because I am sure you will hear them again soon hopefully no one will get hurt to bad next time.. "
andy wrote on January 13, 2009 8:35 pm:
" and yet you all still think the police and courts are there to protect you? if only some of those Queen employees had been armed. "
mike wrote on January 13, 2009 9:37 pm:
" next time i will be voting this judge off the bench and people wonder why there is so much crime "
KCO Of Loincoln wrote on January 13, 2009 10:50 pm:
" You have to trust the judge did what he thought was right for the case. Having said that though it does seem the punishment did not fit the crime seeming weapons were used. If they do get in trouble again they will see the remainder of their sentence behind bars. They did the wrong thing no doubt but I do sometimes wonder if parents think about what their kids are doing when they spend hours each day in front of the TV and playing violent games on their x-box or play station. Before anyone says that is stupid I would point to several studies where this has been reserached and found that teens allowed to do this are desensitized to violence and in fact more prone to violence, drinking and even drugs. I have seen this so many times it is getting old. Parents, wake up and stop letting the TV and gaming control them. Last but not least know who your kids friends are. A 14 year old hanging out with a 20 years old at 11pm at night makes me think someone needs to get a clue and start caring a little more. Parents.need to set rules and boundries.Too many parents want to act like their kids best friend rather than acting like a parent first. I know kids will sneak out and lie about where they are going but there are ways to catch them at it and take appropriate action. There are also ways to make it hard for them to sneak out. If we want to put an end to this teen violence and criminal activity parents need to step up now and they also need to know that yes even their child is capable of comitting a crime. I am never surprised anymore when parents say my child will never do that and then they get into serious trouble. Wake up parents, I have seen straight A students commit serious crimes. And it always seems to come back to the issues I just listed above. The uS has more people in jail per capita than any other country. Doesn't seem to me it has made any difference. "
L wrote on January 14, 2009 5:09 am:
" The overly light sentence is yet another sad result of our cultural delusion that teenagers are "children". Teenagers in general are ignorant, to be sure, but they are not children. They are "old enough" to know better, and old enough to understand that there are consequences for those who commit serious crimes.

Well, they would if there actually WERE consequences. "

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