Two nineteen-year-olds plead guilty in Superior Court for robbery

COLFAX — In a Whitman County Superior Court hearing Friday, Sept. 1, the two nineteen-year-old males who allegedly robbed five Washington State University Students Saturday, July 1, pled guilty to single felony robbery counts against each man.

Frank Alexander Rodriguez, 19, and Robert Ivan Garcia, 19, both of Richland, took the pleas in return for Whitman County Prosecutor Denis Tracy dropping four additional robbery counts against each man, reports show.

According to reports, the deal requires Rodriguez and Garcia’s cooperation with Tracy’s case against the remaining suspect, RJ Williams.

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