Two Robinson football players in jail

Posted Aug 3, 2010 by Adam Adkins

Updated Aug 3, 2010 at 06:23 PM

Two Robinson High football players are being held without bond in a Hillsborough County jail due to their alleged involvement in an armed robbery, an aggravated assault and a string of auto burglaries.

Byron Pringle, 16, and Jovan Woods, 16, have been incarcerated in the juvenile detention center since mid-July on multiple felony charges. Both were transported to the Orient Road Jail Monday evening.

“I am very disheartened with all of this,” Knights coach Mike DePue said.

According to a police report, Pringle, Woods and three other teenagers – Todd Baldwin, 18, Alan Welsh, 17, and D’Mayne Garcia, 19 – committed an armed robbery that occurred July 5 on Davis Island in which they used a baseball bat and hit the victim with an iron chair before taking a wallet that included a credit card and $240 in cash and a cellular phone valued at $180.

In addition, Baldwin, Woods, Welsh, Pringle and Dominique Jennings, who is also a Robinson High football player, committed an aggravated assault that occurred July 5 on Nebraska Ave. when they fired a BB gun at pedestrians.

All six also are accused in a string of auto burglaries, occurring on Davis Island and in South Tampa, according to the report.

Baldwin and Welsh are Robinson High students but are not affiliated with the football team, DePue said. Garcia is a former Robinson High student.

Baldwin, Welsh and Garcia also are being held in the Hillsborough County jail without bond. Jennings was previously released from custody.