SANDY SPRINGS, GA (CBS ATLANTA) -
Richard Passantino and his wife Erika got a real scare Monday when two men approached them with a gun outside their Sandy Springs home.
"He said, 'I want money now. I need it.' I said, 'Well I don't have any money on me and I don't keep any cash in the house,'" Passantino said.
Passantino lives on Weatherly Drive near Heards Ferry Road. He said he gave the suspects $20 and told them to leave. Neighbors could not believe what had happened.
"Shocking, it's very shocking. It makes you want to be a little more conscience of what's going on every minute of every day," neighbor Sheree Knapp said.
"I'm very upset because we haven't had any robberies in the neighborhood that I'm aware of for quite some time," neighbor Larry Nicholls said.
Sandy Springs police caught the teens a few minutes later at a gas station on New Northside Drive at Interstate 285. It turns out they were teenagers driving a stolen car.
"I mean I must say this was incredible police work. We were very, very pleased and I think Sandy Springs should be very proud of the way the operated," Passantino said.
Police said the vehicle was stolen from Pine Mountain, GA.
Investigators learned that the juveniles were part of a program called Warm Springs Outdoor Therapy Program in Warm Springs, GA.
Warm Springs OTP is an outdoor residential program run by the Georgia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities.
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