MAN, BOY ARRESTED IN THEFTS OF IPODS.

Byline: PATRICIA FARRELL AIDEM Staff Writer

SANTA CLARITA -- Two men getting off city buses in Santa Clarita were robbed over the weekend of their iPods

A 20-year-man and a boy, 14, were arrested a short time later Sunday, the younger suspect caught hiding the trendy music players behind a wall near a bus bench, sheriff's Lt. Brenda Cambra said Monday.

The two were booked on suspicion of robbery, Cambra said. Suspect Demetrius Higgins of San Bernardino is due to be arraigned today in Newhall Superior Court; the youth, who lives in Valencia, was jailed at Juvenile Hall in Sylmar.

The first robbery was at 3 p.m. Sunday at Valencia Boulevard and McBean Parkway. A 21-year-old Castaic man said a man and a teen forcibly took his iPod as he was walking from a bus stop to the Westfield Valencia Town Center mall. Shortly before 4 p.m., a 20-year-old Canyon Country man was robbed of his iPod after stepping off a bus near Soledad Canyon Road and Grandiflores Road.

While driving to the second call, deputies saw a man who matched the description of one of the thieves seated on a bus bench, according to a sheriff's report. The youth was nearby, apparently hiding the iPods behind a wall, the report said. The victim in the second incident identified the pair as the two who robbed him, Cambra said.

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