A Dorchester teen is behind bars today after allegedly robbing a disabled woman of her iPad at gunpoint last month while out on bail for an unrelated offense, Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel F. Conley said.

The 16-YEAR-OLD MALE, who is not being identified because he is a juvenile, was arraigned Friday in West Roxbury District Court on an armed robbery charge stemming from the Nov. 19 incident in Hyde Park. Assistant District Attorney Caitlin Grasso recommended $10,000 cash bail and asked that his open bail on a Cambridge larceny case be revoked. Juvenile Court Judge Garrett McManus granted both of those requests.

Investigators believe the victim and defendant corresponded on Facebook for about three months before agreeing to meet in person in the area of 695 Truman Parkway.

Prosecutors say the victim, a 24-year-old Boston woman who is deaf and cannot speak, arrived at about 5:30 and was met by two males, one of whom was the defendant. Both assailants were armed with handguns and they robbed her of her Apple iPad 2.

“If you tell the police, I’ll have my gang kill you,” the defendant allegedly told her before fleeing in a green vehicle.

The victim defied that threat, prosecutors say, and notified Boston Police. She provided authorities with the suspect’s Facebook screen name and email address, as well as a photograph of him. That information was provided to the Boston Police Department’s Boston Regional Intelligence Center, which circulated a flyer to local law enforcement agencies.

On Nov. 21, a Boston School Police officer recognized the photo in that flyer as that of the defendant, and on Dec. 1, a clerk magistrate approved a warrant for his arrest.
The juvenile will return to court on Dec. 16. He is represented by attorney Holly Smith.