PARIS – A Buxton teen was charged Thursday by an Oxford County grand jury with robbing and assaulting a Hiram woman in her house in January.

Cory J. Richards, 19, was indicted on charges of burglary, robbery, assault, theft, assault, criminal mischief and obstructing report of crime or injury.

Oxford County Sheriff’s Department Capt. James P. Miclon said Richards held the 54-year-old woman at gunpoint and robbed her of a large amount of cash on Jan. 20.

Richards and a 17-year-old female accomplice from Standish reportedly broke a window to get in. The sound of the breaking glass woke the woman from a nap shortly after 1 p.m., and she discovered two people in her kitchen.

Miclon said Richards, 19, pulled out a silver revolver, twisted the woman around and stuck the gun into her back, while the girl cut one of the two phone lines coming into the house. They then demanded to know where medication and money was kept.

“Not finding any medication of value, they took her purse, which had a large amount of money and then left,” Miclon said.

Miclon said deputies searching for the pair learned they were incarcerated.

Richards was in the York County Jail, charged with attempted armed robbery of a store Jan. 22. At the time of the Hiram incident he was out on bail after being accused of armed robbery of a store in Buxton, Miclon said.

As deputies were en route to serve a warrant on the 17-year-old girl they learned she had just been picked up by deputies from the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Department for violation of juvenile probation on a theft charge. She was on her way to the Long Creek Youth Development Center in South Portland.

A conviction for Class A burglary and robbery carries a prison sentence of up to 40 years each.

Miclon said his department is asking that the girl be bound over and be treated as an adult on the charges stemming from the Hiram home invasion. The girl currently faces the same charges as Richards, but as a juvenile.

jsmedley@sunjournal.com

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