Coincidence in Berwyn

Rico says that, when you walk around with an eyepatch, people ask you about it. This time, however, it was someone in Yang's Market, where he happened to be shopping, which led him to this story by Richard Ilgenfritz in Main Line Media News:

One suspect waived his hearing and all charges were held over on 1 February for a second suspect in the violent robbery of a 74-year-old Berwyn business owner in January.
Octavio Sandoval, eighteen, and a seventeen-year-old boy are charged with the 18 January robbery of Yong Yang, owner of Yang’s Market. Both suspects were in district court the morning of 1 February for their preliminary hearings. The boy waived his right to a hearing; Sandoval did not.
Police say Yang closed his business on the night of 18 January and walked to his van. While sitting in his van, a man he described as white Hispanic entered the van through a passenger-side door. He was waving a knife with one hand and trying to cover his face with the other. While Yang was yelling at the first man, a second male, described as white, walked in front of the van.
That's when, police say, the first man, later identified as Sandoval, punched Yang in the face. The second, later identified as the teen, pushed Yang’s head forward and took his wallet.
Since their arrests, both suspects have been in prison, Sandoval on $100,000 bail and the teen on $75,000 bail.
In the hearing for Sandoval, Easttown police Lieutenant Scott Albee testified that he spoke with Sandoval in the days after the robbery. In court, Albee had with him a signed confession from Sandoval.
However, the purpose of a preliminary hearing is for the prosecution to show, first, that a crime has been committed and, second, that there is evidence that the arrestee is the person who committed it. Because they hadn’t yet shown the court that a crime had been committed, Albee stepped down from the witness stand and the state’s second witness, John Bullock, was brought up. Bullock is Yang’s son-in-law. He helped his father-in-law write out a description of what had happened. Yang speaks Korean, but only some English.
In the affidavit that Bullock helped Yang prepare, he said that Sandoval worked for him as a dishwasher for a couple of weeks one summer. He then goes on to describe the robbery the same way it was described by police.
Albee then returned to the stand and read from the confession that Sandoval was said to have signed.
Although both Sandoval and Yang were present at the district court in Devon, neither testified.
Because he could be called as a future witness, the court agreed with the defense that Yang be sequestered outside the court while testimony was taking place. He, along with his daughter, waited outside while the hearing took place.
Sandoval, who was wearing the same clothing he had on when he was arrested, remained in court but did not speak. He also did not speak after the hearing as he was being taken back to prison by constables.
After District Magisterial Judge Thomas Tartaglio ordered all charges on Sandoval be held over for trial, the judge also denied a defense request to modify the bail.
At the boy’s hearing, which took place just before Sandoval’s, the defense also asked for a reduction in bail. Tartaglio was willing to grant a modification of a ten-percent provision on the $75,000, provided that the boy can be electronically monitored. That order would have to be finalized at the county level. So as the hearing came to an end, both suspects’ bail remained the same and both were taken back to prison.

Rico says that one little fact not mentioned in the article, though pointed out to him in the market, is that the question of the eyepatch came up because Yang now wears one, due to the fact that the beating cost him an eye. (Rico says that that should cost each of these idiots one of theirs, if possible, and fuck the Constitutional injunction against torture...) A discussion was had that, in a more perfect world, Yang, in reaching for his wallet, should have pulled out of a concealed holster his Glock 30 and put two .45-caliber rounds into each of these clowns, thus saving him an eye and the county a lot of money...