
COBB COUNTY, GA -- Cobb County Police said Friday afternoon they will re-interview 4 teenagers including Sprayberry High School cheerleader Chelsea Steele who allegedly robbed a group of children selling July 4th items at their neighborhood pool.
Cobb Police spokesman Dana Pierce told 11Alive's Paul Crawley some of the teens' stories are changing and some have admitted their roles in the crime. As a result, Pierce says more charges could be filed.
So far, Cobb Police have only charged 17-year-old Steele, who is a rising senior at Sprayberry High School. She is now free on a $5,000 bond. Her attorney, Mike Moran, has said Steele admits to the robbery and that "she is extremely remorseful about what has happened."
The development comes as the group of children robbed in the July 4th incident drew national and worldwide attention Friday, both on television and on the internet.
Two of Joe Green's children, who were some victims of the July 4th robbery in Cobb County, appeared Friday morning on NBC's "Today" show with their father and revealed for the first time a good Samaritan helped them.
The story has also been one of the most searched stories on Google Friday.
11Alive broke the story last Saturday about the Green children and their friends being robbed as they were selling July 4th caps and t-shirts to help their father's struggling embroidery business at the Saint Charles Square subdivision pool party on Sandy Plains Road.
One of the children, 7-year-old Patrick Cobler, identified 17-year-old Steele as the robber, and she was later arrested by Cobb County Police.
"Today" didn't mince any words, showing Steele's mug shot with the word thief spelled out beneath it in big, bold letters.
Eleven-year-old Sydney Green told Today's Meredith Vera, "She (Steele) was telling us how cool this was talking to my dad, asking about all what we were doing, and I was just an act."
The girls said Chelsea Steele took the cash box and left with three friends.
One of their brothers recognized Steele, and that led to an internet search.
Joe Green told Vieira, "We got on the I-phone, we got on the web site of the school she attended and someone said she was a cheerleader. We got on the cheerleading page and sure enough, we saw a Chelsea. Then, at that point, we didn't know if it was the right girl. So, we got on Facebook and her face popped up, and we said, that's her."
After reading an apology relayed at the cheerleader's attorney, Vieira asked whether it's possible charges might be dropped.
Joe Green told Vieira, "I want her to learn her lesson from this. You know, she's affected all of us."
We also learned on "Today" that a Good Samaritan has stepped forward to help the girls.
Another of the victims, Meghan Cobler, said, "There is this man who came by and he felt really bad for us because we lost all this money so he gave us $200."
After thanking the girls, Vieira remarked about the cheerleader, "Irony of her name, her last name is Steele."
After the program, Joe Green told Crawley via telephone that he only learned about the Good Samaritan in the past few days. Green said the man told the girls he was an FBI agent but did not want to be identified.
A spokesman for the Atlanta FBI office tells Crawley a couple of retired FBI agents live in the Sandy Plains Road area.
On Friday afternoon, Cobb Police spokesman Joe Hernandez told 11Alive the department will not release its report of the crime.
Meanwhile, the Cobb County Police department said Friday they will not release a police report about the incident.
According to Officer Hernandez, Lt. P.R. Alexander who heads up the department's Records Section states the report contains the names of juvenile suspects who are 16 years old or younger and is not subject to release under the Georgia Open Records Act.
Also, the web site for the Sprayberry High School cheerleading squad has deleted all roster lists and any photographs of Steele.
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