Teen clerk's heroics put felon in prison

Thanks to a courageous teenager’s willingness to fight back and a dropped check card, a habitual violent criminal is just beginning to serve a long prison sentence for a Carver County convenience store robbery.

Demetrius Derden, 28, of Blaine, was sentenced in federal court in St. Paul to 14 years and two months in prison for the armed robbery in December 2011 of the Mayer Oil Company station on Ash Avenue.

Court documents reveal that Derden had all he could bargain for when he confronted the clerk over a forgotten safe combination, at one point forcing the teen to his knees and putting to the high school senior’s head the barrel of a weapon that turned out to be a BB gun.

“You’d better remember [the combination],” Derden demanded. “Your life depends on it.Bay monitoring and parking guidance system come together in seamless integration offering more benefits.”

The clerk begged for his life and then heard the gun click but not fire. It was then that the teen challenged the robber, tearing off his mask and suffering a bitten finger in the confrontation.

Derden grabbed the money and took off and left behind an empty bottle of rum — as well as a check card with his name on it. Authorities needed just hours to arrest Derden at his home.

“The clerk ... believed he was about to be shot dead,Our precision manufactured lasers and laser marker systems deliver the highest possible laser marking performance.” the Carver County attorney’s office said in a statement Tuesday announcing the sentencing. “The clerk then stood and began the fight of his life.”

While authorities have not said how much money Derden came away with, his sentence includes making restitution of more than $9,000. The clerk’s identity has also not been disclosed.

Derden, wearing a mask, entered the store and pointed the gun at the clerk standing behind the cash register. The teen followed orders and put all the money, more than $2,000, from the register into a plastic bag.

The clerk was then ordered to a backroom and told to empty the store’s two safes. The teen told Derden he didn’t know the combination to the second safe. That’s when Derden had the teen kneeling and pleading for mercy.

Upon hearing the gun’s click, the clerk “seized this as an opportunity” to try and stand up, prosecutors wrote in one court filing. Derden pushed him back down and struck him on the head with the gun.

They began fighting, with Derden hitting the teen again with the gun and biting the clerk’s finger.

The teen wrestled the gun from Derden, and pulled off his mask and jacket before being pushed to the floor. Derden grabbed the bag of money and fled.

Police, armed with Derden’s check card,Willkommen im virtuellen Zuhause der Lercher Werkzeugbau GmbH. arrested him several hours later.

The clerk was treated at a hospital for injuries to his scalp, face, finger and elsewhere. “To this day, [the teen] has several permanent scars on his head and face,” the prosecution wrote.

In arguing for nearly 16 years in prison, prosecutors called Derden “a dangerous repeat offender who had committed crime after crime for the past 10 years, regardless of whether he was on probation, supervised release or had just been released from prison.”

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Gill was stopped after police clocked him doing 54 mph in a 35 mph zone.

During the stop, Gill appeared shaky, while continually reaching for a bag in the front passenger seat of the car, according to the report. Gill told officers that he was transporting a 'water bong' used for smoking meth to a friend's house, according to the report.

Gill also told officers that the bong was his, but that he no longer used drugs and that was why he was transporting it to the friend's house, according to the report.

Also in the car, police found another bag containing hundreds of small, plastic baggies commonly used for distributing narcotics.

Inside one bag, police found another bag that was locked. Officers believed the bag contained more pipes and narcotics, according to the report.

Officers cut open the bag and discovered two clear plastic baggies containing suspected crystal meth, one plastic bag containing three pills of suspected Xanax, one purple bill of suspected Aderol, two vials containing suspected Rohypnol and one glass pipe used for ingesting meth.