Woman, teen charged with armed home invasion in Dorchester

Police arrested a pair for an armed home invasion on Trescott Street not long after the two used their victim's ATM card to withdraw $200 from a nearby bank machine yesterday, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.

Quaknesha Garvin-Johnson, 22, and a 17-year-old, not named because of his age, were both ordered held in lieu of $100,000 bail at their arraignments in Dorchester Municipal Court this morning, the DA's office reports, adding it had only requested $50,000 bail for Garvin-Johnson.

According to the DA's office, the two broke into a Trescott Street home around 11 a.m.:

[T]he male pointed a gun at [the victim] while demanding money. The victim had no cash and instead provided her debit card and PIN number, and the assailants took off with the card, a laptop, jewelry, and a black cell phone in an orange case. The male threatened the victim and disabled her home phone in an alleged attempt to prevent her from calling police, prosecutors said.

While police were on scene, the victim’s bank provided information that her debit card had been used to withdraw $200. Officers immediately traveled to the nearest bank branch, located on East Cottage Street, and located a male and female, later identified as the defendants, inside the ATM kiosk, prosecutors said.

Officers separated the juvenile and Garvin-Johnson and conducted a pat frisk of each for officer safety due to the nature of the alleged offense and the report that one of the assailants had a gun. The juvenile was found to be in possession of a loaded Star M43 Firestar 9mm Luger pistol, prosecutors said. He was placed in handcuffs after a brief struggle.

Garvin-Johnson was found in possession of four cell phones – one of which was a black phone encased in an orange phone case, prosecutors said. She was also in possession of the victim’s bank card, a second bank card in the name of another individual, and a small bag of jewelry. Police recovered ten $20 bills - totaling $200 - from the defendants, prosecutors said.

Prosecutors say that while in a cruiser, Garvin-Johnson managed to free herself from her handcuffs. After officers re-restrained her, she then tried kicking out the cruiser's windows, to no avail. The kid with her proved equally obnoxious, kicking one officer and spitting at another, the DA's office says.

Innocent, etc.