State v. Baer

POHLMAN, Judge:

¶1 Late one summer night, eighteen-year-old Jacob Baer and three other teenage boys entered a community swimming pool after hours. One of the teenagers who worked as a lifeguard at the pool (Lifeguard) used a key to let them in, and the group went swimming. Afterward, unbeknownst to Lifeguard, Baer took the pool's small lockbox used to store the pool's cash. When Lifeguard later asked Baer about the missing lockbox, Baer told him, "Tell the cops I wasn't there." With help from one of the other teenagers, K.D., authorities eventually recovered the pool's bank deposit bag from a…