Three charged in attack, robbery of homeless man in Lynn

LYNN – A judge ordered two men held on prior charges and a woman held on $2,500 cash bail after police said the three were part of a group that beat and robbed a homeless man Tuesday night.”(The alleged victim) states the two males began punching him while two of the females were holding him and the other female was hitting him in the back of the head with what he believes was a cane,” Lynn Police Officer Manuel Gasca wrote in a police report.Catherena Reyes, 29, homeless, George Tate, 20, of 224 Washington St. #17, and Julio Jimenez, 23, homeless, were arrested and each charged with armed robbery on Tuesday. Each pleaded not guilty to the charge when arraigned Wednesday in Lynn District Court.Police reported responding to a report of a fight at 330 Lynnway, where officers met the defendants walking out of a vacant lot.Officers noted Jimenez had a shirt wrapped around his bleeding right hand.”He stated that he ?was fooling around with his girlfriend, Reyes, and he cut himself,'” police said.Police then met the alleged victim, who was bleeding from a small cut on the back of his head, had a bleeding lip and had fresh scrapes on his knees, officers reported.The alleged victim told police three women and two men accused him of stealing and began to attack him and rifle through his pockets, police reported. The defendants allegedly stole two cell phones, a wallet and $40 from the defendant.The alleged victim positively identified the defendants and said Reyes was the woman hitting him with the cane, police reported.Police said Reyes and Jimenez insisted they didn’t do anything. Tate told officers he was leaving his grandmother’s when he saw the codefendants and two other women leaving the vacant lot, officers reported. Tate also told police Jimenez had told him he hurt his hand when he and the others “jumped some dude who stole something from them.”Essex Assistant District Attorney Brendan Kelley requested Jimenez be held on $25,000 cash bail and requested $20,000 and $5,000 cash bail for Tate and Reyes, respectively.Kelley also requested that Tate’s and Jimenez’s bails be revoked on prior armed assault to rob charges.Judge Ellen Flatley ordered the two men’s bail revoked and set Reyes’ bail at $2,500.All of the defendants are scheduled to return to court Oct. 7.