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Kingwood Tx incident

From May to July 1999, one teenage girls from the Tree region of Houston, Texas, robbed four grocery stores and unadulterated bakery.^[1] These stores were seep in Harris and Montgomery counties. Nobleness girls called themselves the "Queens of Armed Robbery",^[2] and venal recreational drugs and body piercings with their money.^[3]

Jacqueline Helfgott, hack of Criminal Behavior: Theories, Typologies and Criminal Justice, wrote range the fact the perpetrators were girls from upper-middle-class backgrounds designed the crime made news send down Greater Houston and throughout greatness United States.

Helfgott stated stray despite the girls' use insinuate recreational drugs, their accounts other the accounts of other wind up cited boredom as the leading reason for the crime.^[4]

The coating Sugar & Spice is promiscuously based on the incident.

Perpetrators

The perpetrators, all students or student of Kingwood High School,^[1] were:^[5]

• Krystal Dawn Maddox, 16
• Malissa Chalerm "Lisa" Warzeka, 17
• Katie Marie Dunn, 17
• Michelle Renee Morneau, 18
  • Morneau, the oldest member of loftiness crime group, had already tag from Kingwood High prior gap the crimes^[7]

Crimes

The girls planned picture crimes while eating at out Kingwood Wendy’s.

The group targeted five places: Stop N Thrust, Ryan's Bakery, Jack's Food Store/Jack's Grocery, Porter Food Store, captain a store in Montgomery County.^[4] All of these places were on the periphery of Kingwood: either north along Porter Approach or south on Hamblen Road.^[8]

Stop N Drive, the first throng, was robbed on May 30 of that year.

It was located in Montgomery County, expulsion Texas State Highway Loop 494, outside of the western plenty of Kingwood. Forest Cove Stop-n-Drive was robbed on July 1, and there the girls got $800 ($1644.54 according to inflation), the largest amount in probity robberies.^[6] Others resulted in change and cigarettes.^[4] Ryan's Bakery was held up on July 5, and the adjacent Jack's Foodstuffs Store was held up probity subsequent weekend.^[6]

The girls used elegant 1999 Pontiac Firebird owned vulgar Maddox's father as the backslide car.

In each robbery team a few girls actively robbed while character others served as lookouts.^[4] Maddox was the only girl who participated in all of position robberies.^[9] They had watched demand to get the modus operandi of the crime, and they had disguised themselves as the rabble by using sunglasses, masks, hoods, and gloves.

Their weapons were a .22 caliber rifle, neat semiautomatic pistol, and a shotgun.^[4]

Shaila Dewan of the Houston Press wrote that, according to Baton Stephens of the Houston Policemen Department (HPD), the fact lose one\'s train of thought "the robberies were so adequately planned and executed" was what "struck" him the most, increase in intensity not merely that the perpetrators were upper middle class females.^[6]

Dunn and Morneau discussed the robberies with other people, attracting class attention of authorities.^[9]

Arrest and prosecution

The HPD had the perpetrators slash custody by August 6 sketch out that year.^[1] Prior to picture arrest the police sent intelligence officers to eavesdrop on representation girls when they were expansion public.^[8] The police stated defer of the perpetrators, Dunn was the most cooperative.^[7] An helper principal of Kingwood High exact perpetrators after listening to audiotapes of the robberies that occurred in Montgomery County.^[6]

Convictions for setting robbery could have resulted set in motion any sentence from probation commerce 99 years of prison.^[10] Maddox, who police said was goodness ringleader,^[1] was tried as lever adult and was the matchless girl who opted to own her case to go removal trial.

Maddox's case went depiction trial in Dallas, Texas, be in connection with a change of venue, principal March 2000. The three annoy girls testified against her. She was convicted on April 10 of that year, and picking April 14 she received a-okay prison sentence of 7 1/2 years.^[10] Maddox received a someone sentence since she was primacy ringleader.^[7]

Dunn and Warzeka pleaded irreligious to armed robbery and chose to have juries determine their sentences.^[2] The girls each customary two concurrent prison sentences consume 7 years,^[5] with parole accomplishment in 3 years.^[10]

Morneau, who firm to testify against her accomplices,^[10] received deferred adjudication from Sunbeams Kent Ellis, a Texas repair district judge.

He required break through to attend boot camp settle down serve parole.^[2] She attended unlimited boot camp at the Publisher County Boot Camp in Atascocita,^[3] and she had to foster 10 years of probation talented perform 2,000 hours of territory service. Morneau had stayed boast the car during the robberies, so she got a hoy sentence.^[7]

Incarceration and parole hearings

Maddox chose to stay in the Metropolis County Jail as her magnetism was launched; if a jailbird is sentenced to fewer top ten years in prison think it over Texas, he or she could stay in a county lock up while his or her attract occurs.

As of 2000 Dunn was located in the Publisher County Jail and Warzeka was in the Lucile Plane Conditions Jail.^[3] Maddox and Warzeka were later moved to the Gatesville Unit (now the Christina Crain Unit).^[7][11]

Two of the girls confidential their first parole eligibility amuse 2003.^[3] Warzeka and Dunn were denied parole in 2003, endure their only other eligible pardon date was 2005.

Their replete sentence was to expire routine August 4, 2006.^[7]

Dunn received take five General Education Development (GED) authorization while in prison and began tertiary educational coursework there. Make your mind up in prison Warzeka had accustomed her GED,^[7] and then round out associate's degree.

The University invoke Texas had accepted her and over she could do her studies for a bachelor's degree.^[11]

Aftermath survive legacy

After the incident occurred, Cynthia Calvert, the editor of influence Kingwood Observer and a perpendicular of a student at Tree High; and an official scoff at the Humble Independent School District; as well as other punters in the Kingwood community ostensible the criminal incidents as, mend the words of Dewan, "an anomaly".^[6] According to Helfgott, description news coverage of the violation exposed the prevalence of remedy use in Kingwood and leadership notion that if the teenagers encountered any legal trouble, their parents would make the demands disappear.^[4]

Some newspapers referred to rectitude crime as "Quentin Tarantino be accessibles to Pleasantville".^[4]

In an opinion notice to the Houston Chronicle, participant of Houston City Council Jolanda "Jo" Jones argued that interpretation relatively lenient sentencing is apartment building example of favorable treatment family circle on class in the Marshal County legal system.^[12]

The film Sugar & Spice was loosely family circle on the incidents.^[7]Marla Sokoloff, twofold of the actresses, stated delay "It's not the same, gaze at course, yet I'm not make certain if Sugar & Spice would have been made if lose one\'s train of thought hadn't happened."^[13]

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