Written by PASADENA, Texas – Give me $600 cash or you will die. That’s the threat prosecutors said a gang member used to intimidate a 15-year-old high school student.
The teenager and his family fear for their own personal safety so we’re not releasing the student’s name, but court records show he attends Sam Rayburn High School in Pasadena.
It was there where, investigators said, the teen requested help to stay alive.
The teen was inducted into 52 Hoover Crips street gang , according to court records. But he changed his mind the next day because his girlfriend was having a child.
Prosecutors said that’s when a man who’s known on the streets as ‘Souf Side’ told the 15-year-old the only way he could leave was through death or a $600 payment in cash.
That student told his parents who then informed the Rayburn High principal.
A Pasadena ISD Police officer set up a sting based on the given information.
John Adshade, 22, went to pick up the $600 gang-exit fee. “Souf Side” instead found a waiting police officer who arrested him across the street from the school.
“When parents come to us, it feels good because it shows they trust us and they know we will be there when they need us,” Candace Ahlfinger, head of communications at Pasadena ISD, said.
Adshade denied threatening the 15-year-old but admitted he’s a member of a gang.
We attempted to reach him for a comment but no one was at the address he gave as his home.
Adshade is officially charged with Soliciting Membership in a Criminal Gang.
