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One US teenager got the wrong meaning of "success and fame" and became, from a praised hero, a disgraced juvenile burglar facing long years of youth detention. He apparently stole an Xbox 360 console from a former friend, whom he previously denounced as planning another Columbine attack.

Lewis Bennett III, a 14 year old boy from Plymouth-Township, Pennsylvania, with a girlish look on his face and a skinny constitution, was lauded last year in October by the media in his home town and across the nation for the daring deed of turning in one of his friends, Dillon Cossey, 14, who was allegedly planning a Columbine-like attack on the Plymouth-Whitemarsh High School, where they were both studying.

Cossey had previously asked his mother Michelle to buy him a semi-automatic rifle, which she actually did. Benett eventually found out about Cossey's plans and later confessed to his parents that his friend is planning an attack. When the police searched Cossey's house (after being alerted by Bennett's parents), they found an entire arsenal in the teenager's bedroom: the 9mm semi-automatic carabine, home-made hand grenades and other smaller weapons. Michelle Cossey is now awaiting trial on charges of buying a gun for her minor son.

The discovery led to a massive interest from the media for both Cossey and Bennett, the latter often being praised as a "hero" and even receiving congratulations and a warm shake of hand from President Bush at the Philadelphia International Airport.

However, the Olympian heights where he was placed and the "hero" etiquette he received from his community turned out to be too much of a burden for the young Lewis Bennett. The boy's glory collapsed violently last month, when he was involved in a burglary along with two other friends. The target? Ironically or not, the same Dillon Cossey that Bennett turned in to the police a few months earlier...

From his ex-friend's house, Bennett stole an Xbox console (which he later sold for only $20 to a Plymouth-Whitemarsh student), some other electronic-game equipment, cash and jewelry. According to Assistant District Attorney Sharon Giamporcaro, Bennett has also returned a knife and an air gun clutched from Cossey's house, during an interrogation that took place on February 27.

The two other teenagers, aged 14 and 15, with whom Bennett was planning a second break-in, are now undergoing psychological evaluation at the youth center, while they wait the verdict for the burglary and criminal conspiracy accusations that have been brought against them. Bennett has entered admission of guilt to three felony charges:  burglary, receiving stolen property and criminal conspiracy.

Brian McLaughlin, Bennett's lawyer, excused his teenage client saying that the celebrity he was faced in the recent period came too early: "That's a lot of notoriety to deal with at such a young age. How does a child, a young adult, deal with that situation, where all these cameras are put in his face and he's required to respond and he meets the president?"

On the other hand, Cossey's mother Michelle said she has forgiven the three boys for their deed:"My client's mother was very gracious," J. David Farrell, Dillon Cossey's attorney,said. "She's extended her sympathies toward the families. It's unfortunate. The young fellow [Dillon] is away getting treatment and his home is burglarized."

Even more ironic is the fact that Bennett's felony would've probably remained unnoticed, if it hadn't been for the vigilance of another teenager, who reported to the high-school principal that he overheard Bennett and the other two teenagers boasting with their "adventures"... Let's just hope that this new mysterious "hero" won't make the headlines in the next couple of months with roof-top burglaries or drug-dealing...