A Yucca Valley man who decided to celebrate his 18th birthday with a couple of friends by stealing some ice tea to go with his donuts celebrated becoming an adult in jail yesterday. According to a Sheriff’s report, about 4:30 Monday afternoon, Albert Dupree, 18, and two friends who are still juveniles, went to a gas station market in the 56200 block of 29 Palms Highway with their donuts in a pink box, and stole some ice tea, and then fled toward Apache Trail. A deputy found them hiding inside the locked fence of the Yucca Valley Elks Lodge on Yucca Trail. One juvenile was arrested on a juvenile warrant for his arrest, as well as for investigation of petty theft and resisting arrest. The other juvenile was on juvenile probation, and was arrested on suspicion of petty theft and resisting arrest. Albert Dupree, who had a no-bail juvenile warrant, was arrested for investigation of giving a false name to a police officer, contributing to the delinquency of a minor, petty theft, and resisting arrest. Dupree was booked at the Morongo Basin Jail and is being held without bail.
