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Police Arrest Six In Kidnapping, Beating Of Homeless Teen

March 26, 2012 at 3:41 pm by Morbid

TURNERS FALLS, MA – Police have arrested six people in connection to the abduction and beating of a homeless teenager.

According to Montague Police Staff Sergeant Chip Dodge, a family got pissed after their 14-year-old daughter told them she had been hit by Branden Stebbins, a 19-year-old homeless teenager.

The girl’s mother, Dawn Shafer, decided not to contact police and inform them of her daughter’s allegations and reportedly asked a few friends to help her track down Stebbins and give him the what-for.

When they finally found the teen in a park, the group decided to dole out a bit of street justice. After duct taping the teen, they placed him in their vehicle and brought him back to their home where a neighbor watched seven people beat Stebbins with baseball bats.

Police Arrest Six In Kidnapping, Beating Of Homeless Teen

Pictured from upper left to lower right: Johny Lopez, Seth Lemieux, Robin Shafer, Marcus Thompson, Gina Artruc, and Dawn Shafer

Before police arrived, the group placed Stebbins back in the vehicle and had already left the scene. This is also about the time that Johny Lopez, one of Stebbins’ attackers and the alleged ringleader, threatened to rape and murder Stebbins.

Deciding not to find out if Lopez was serious on either of his threats, Stebbins jumped out of the moving vehicle. Despite having his arm ran over, Stebbins was able to run away and flag down a motorist to help.

Stebbins would be treated and released from the hospital while police tracked down and arrested Johny Lopez, Seth Lemieux, Robin Shafer, Marcus Thompson, Gina Artruc, and Dawn Shafer.

For their part in Stebbins’ beating, whether he deserved it or not, they face multiple charges including kidnapping and assault. Police are still looking for Kyle Holden.

Tags: Beating, Branden Stebbins, Crime, Dawn Schafer, homeless, Johny Lopez, Kidnapping, Massachusetts

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CT

Holy crap that’s a lot of double chins.
Cory

They look like they might all have webbed feet lol
steelpin

they are flat out ugly fat pieces of shit.
JGo555

Ffffuuuuuuckkkkkk! That is a lot of UGLY in such a small space.
http://twitter.com/BaconIsMyNigga Shelby Burns

That one on the bottom left…ever see someone so ugly you wonder if their parents love them? That just happened to me.
SayAunt

More chins there than a Chinese telephone book.
rensuchan

My question was… What is the born sex of the bottom left one? That’s the BAD kind of androgyny.
DangerousKindOfSnark

Kyle turned himself in, which is news speak for his parents dragged his ass to the police department. Also, he looks like a fat Edward Furlong.

http://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2012/03/18-year-old_kyle_holden_7th_su.html
DangerousKindOfSnark

Now now, I’m sure they have very nice personalities. Or, maybe brains… OK I got nothing.
Valerie

I know, I just tried to imagine it as a kid or a baby just to figure if it could have ever been cute.
newstarshipsmell

Why you gotta insult folks with webbed feet like that?
newstarshipsmell

LOL you know many girls named “Marcus?”
rensuchan

That was before reading the names =P
Texas Ranger

I’m all fuckin confused…..So if I got this right, in Turner Falls, MA , chicks look like dudes, dudes look like chicks, some folks don’t favor either and the guys threaten to rape guys, which compared to the chick-dudes, may be the preferable choice. On another note…is there a Nuclear Power plant round there?
onlyme356

This group just did that kid a favor. Hopefully his wife-beating tendencies just got beat the hell out of him.
Evan Oswald

mixed feelings on this story! lol a totally crazy story tho! hahahahahahh
http://www.facebook.com/YourFriendlyNeighborhoodJewishGirl Rebekah Herzberg

The prize on the bottom left makes me LOL
JohnQknowitall

I think the lips make that man.
JohnQknowitall

Murder I might think about, but possibly being raped by any of these people would make me jump from an airplane.
Heather_Habilatory

I was wondering that about the one on the right!
Cat_Lady

Damn that is a whole lot of ugly!
Heather_Habilatory

I’m SHOCKED that insane amount of ugly didn’t make my hard drive explode!
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=534372011 Georgia Meyer

I just laughed my ass all the way through every comment, my God you all just made my shitty evening more enjoyable. I love you all.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1069158605 Randy Whisnant

If you are referring to Marcus Thompson, that is not a double chin. That is a whole nother face.
http://www.hillbillyhotdogs.com/ unimpeachablegoodguy

Now let’s stop the name calling! This used to be a decent place to peruse the latest crime reports.
Lena60

I thought the one named Gina with a tat on her neck was a dude.
Chinchillazilla

This was basically my thought too.

On a scale of 1 to 10, where 1 is Brad Pitt and 10 is Brian Peppers, I’d say he’s about a 9.
Heather_Habilatory

There is a serious case of fugly in this article!
JGo555

Oh don’t worry, even if they didn’t love him, he’ll feel LOVED in jail. Look at those gorgeous luscious chubby lips. This dude better be smart enough to find the biggest bubba & pucker up because he has:

fuck handles,

pouty lips,

girly voice (from all the crying for being in jail & wanting his mommy)

moobs,

and I bet you from the back, he looks like a fat chick…
JGo555

Fucking CLASSY!
JGo555

Didn’t he get the memo: Justin Bieber cut his hair…
Tenbux

Jesus! If the girl that was hit looks anything like these mugshots, she probably got hit when the guy mistook her for a relative of Jabba the Hut. Branden Stebbins just wanted a little revenge for his homey, Han Solo.
Tenbux

You could say that about most of the pictured people. It’s like a big “It’s Pat!” look-alike contest.
http://twitter.com/BaconIsMyNigga Shelby Burns

Yeah, I feel sorry for him with those DSLs.
Perp Walk Fan

Jeebus…. those mugshots. What has been seen cannot be unseen.

Anyway, here’s Seth Lemieux FB, telling everyone to get the fuck off his page.

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=745642248
AssWho?

No joke I swear to god I have seen these people before, People of Walmart.com or maybe on a MSNBC Lockup… The one that no one can tell is a women. Even before reading anything I said “I Think her name is something like vagina “

Never agree with beating a woman, however in the dudes defense he probably didn’t know he was hitting a girl judging by the pictures of the genes available her offspring had to draw from.

Really thinking a Lockup, or Scared Straight episode
Jemimabean

I’ll put money on Gina and Dawn being “lovers” *bleh*
Jemimabean

What is with the white girl telling LeMieux that she’ll make her “nigga” Free Seth t- shirts? Oh, the joys of a State- funded education.
ViewerBeware

Branden’s (the victims) FB page (with his side of the story):

http://m.facebook.com/people/Branden-Stebbins/100002424846858?id=100002424846858&_rdr#!/profile.php?id=100002424846858&v=feed&__user=100002554686398
Jemimabean

“Mmmmmmmm, where’s a Woooo- ggggiiiiiieee?”
newstarshipsmell

“Kyle Holden
Do you see all that is around you? this world is about to change hands from one generation to another, let us change the things we dont agree with and make the world a better place for our children
Saturday, February 25 at 9:45am”

… LOL
newstarshipsmell

Hahaha:
http://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/541453_10150756173586388_541586387_11264487_663936533_n.jpg
hookerpie

Wait…..there are women pictured up there?
newstarshipsmell

On second thought, I’d like to Unlike this comment, on account of you’ve made me think about Brian Peppers again.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Shannon-Bennett/1803988499 Shannon Bennett

Not one of these six strange looking looser`s could manage to say “hey guys I think this is a little extreme no“?!
Jemimabean

They might have, but the meth kept saying “No, no.”
Zazen

So will the guys in jail.
Zazen

Lol, that’s what I said when I saw those lips!
Zazen

I dunno, looks like the gene pool just got a ‘lil cleaned up.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XKMAEMPVJ5T2Y35HKYTNG7I6SY Cedric

WOW … most everyone has a fb page – including the homeless …
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XKMAEMPVJ5T2Y35HKYTNG7I6SY Cedric

From reading the story and viewing the pics inbreeding is alive and well in TURNERS FALLS, MA.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XKMAEMPVJ5T2Y35HKYTNG7I6SY Cedric

HAHA
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XKMAEMPVJ5T2Y35HKYTNG7I6SY Cedric

See this is just another example of why bestiality is a bad idea.
warbonds

Ya think ? what a motley looking crew that is, and whats up with that BULL dike ?
warbonds

Holy bulldike batman !!!!!
warbonds

I would be the exception, i have never had a CRACKBOOK account.
warbonds

It’s name is MR. Lickalotopuss….lol
warbonds

I just puked a lil’ in my mouth….. guy in the lower left looks like one of spongebobs buddies.
AssWho?

My sides actually hurt from that
warbonds

I was snickering typing it…lol now in a bout of laughter in response to your response….
Chinchillazilla

Sorry. I had to think about him too. Decided to share the misery.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Jerri-Blank/100002828502192 Jerri Blank

Please defenders come ’cause I have to ask them ‘Who in the hell moved the rock?’
LoKi4778

Holy shit it looks like the rejected auditions from the Addams Family
Bulletproof

I’m sure Bubba will make good use of the DSLs on Mr Thompson
RydoLarsson

lol the guy on the bottom left looks like the lightsaber kid haha
RydoLarsson

shit maybe im trippin but tht vagina guy dude bottom middle kinda looks like that sneaky butler guy form mr deeds or am a trippin lol
http://www.youtube.com/user/WildlifeSeriaLKiller Darrell FIne

WOW…. just WOW…. I would hate to get my ass kicked by six people. Let alone six people that looked like THAT… fuck me running. That’s a whole lot of ugly.
Conley

All I can think when I see the guy on the bottom left is Ba-Chomp Ba-Chomp Ba-Chewy Chomp Chomp!! And I gotta be honest I think getting beat up by that guy would give me PTSD…
http://www.facebook.com/nikkitaurus Nicole Giard

I lived in this town. I live in the town directly next to it as of right now. Turners Falls is a cesspool of disgusting shady people. I hate to say it, but I’m willing to bet that Brandon Stebbins is a disgusting turd as well. I’m not saying he deserved it, but I’m not surprised that this story came from the border of my hometown. And yes, The whole town is just about as ugly.