Nails Salon | Two Teenagers Convicted, Judgment In Armed Robberies

From Staff Reports

CHIPLEY - Two teenagers have been convicted and condemned for armed robberies committed in Chipley in 2011.

Sentenced were Tatjana Mimic, 15, of Jacksonville, and Dustin Dickens, 17, of Bonifay. Mimic received a judgment on May 7 of 10 years in the Department of Corrections for armed robbery. Dickens received a judgment on June 21 of 3 years in the DOC for armed robbery, followed by 12 years of probation, according to a inform from the Chipley Police Department.

On June 8, 2011, Mimic entered Gorgeous Nails Salon located at 1611 Main Street in Chipley, where she constructed two firearms and demanded all the allowance from the register, according to the report.

Mimic fled along with other subjects in the car. Investigators with the Chipley Police Department worked with agents from the Leon County Sheriff’s Office and the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office and identified Mimic as being entangled ! in a few armed robberies, inclusive the Chipley housebreak and a housebreak in Leon County.

On Nov. 13, 2011, Dickens entered the BP HandiMart located at 1230 Main Street in Chipley, where he secluded his face and constructed a firearm and demanded the allowance from the record drawer. Dickens then over the store with cash from the register. The Chipley Police Department worked with law coercion agencies in Holmes County and identified Dickens as the think in this case.

"We are cheerful to have these philosophy and sentences," Police Chief Kevin Crews said. "The Chipley Police Department worked hard on these cases that incited out with great results. It is a tarnish that such young people have done such bad decisions so early in their lives that it will start them for many years to come."

"I would similar to to appreciate the adults of Chipley and the who assisted with data involving these cases together with the other law coercion age! ncies and the state attorney’s office for assisting to f! inish these crimes. It takes a lot of work to put together these cases and is ample more prolific when you all work together," Crews said.