Sheboygan – Two people were arrested this week after allegedly holding a gun to a man’s head and stealing his wallet and phone.
Curtis Britton, of Sheboygan, was charged with felony armed robbery and bail jumping stemming from the incident and Josephine Garczynski, 18, of Sheboyan Falls was charged with felony armed robbery.
According to the criminal complaint:
A man called police March 5 and reported that a black male had held him at gunpoint and took his phone and wallet near the intersection of 13th Street and Georgia Avenue in Sheboygan.
The man said he had met a woman on Facebook, who identified herself as Josephine, and they had chatted regularly and never met, but had made plans to meet at that intersection that evening. He said he got into Josephine’s car when she arrived, at about 8:15 p.m., and that a man, later identified as Britton, entered the back seat of the car and held a gun to the man’s head, demanding his wallet and phone. Britton then searched the man’s pockets.
Police used information from Josephine’s Facebook page and law enforcement records to peg Josephine Garczynski as a suspect. Her boyfriend, Britton, matched the physical description provided by the victim.
Police made contact with Garczynski, who admitted to meeting the victim, but initially told officers she did not know the man who entered the back seat of the car with the gun. Later during the interview, however, she said she and Britton had planned to rob the man.
When being handcuffed, Garczynski asked her father to take pictures so she could post it on Facebook.
Police then executed a search warrant on Britton’s residence and found 2 BB guns that looked like realistic semi-automatic handguns, along with marijuana and drug paraphernalia.
At the time of the incident, Britton was out on bond for a Manitowoc County Case involving felony possession with intent to deliver near a jail stemming from a November 2016 case. He also was previously convicted of battery by a prisoner in February of 2015, according to court records.
