Three young men scheduled to be arraigned in Lawrence District Court Tuesday on charges stemming from a Friday convenience store armed robbery were participants in a state-funded program that is aimed at curbing youth gun violence in Massachusetts.
Michael Tesaun Alicea, 19, Richard Mora, 18, and Ruben Saldana, 18, face multiple charges from the robbery at South Union Market in Lawrence, Police Chief John Romero said Monday.

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Another social program success story. We obviously need to increase funding on this program.
It's all our fault, really, if we'd gone along with President Clinton's midnight basketball program proposal in 1994 there would be no urban street violence today.
Shocking, shocking I tell you.
They are good boys, probably victims of mis-identification.