LEWISTON — A local woman police say robbed a pizza delivery man in July was charged Wednesday.

Judith Pereyra, 20, of 242 Park St. was indicted by an Androscoggin County grand jury on a felony robbery charge, which is punishable by up to 30 years in prison.

Lewiston Detective Ryan Rawstron wrote in a sworn statement that Pereyra and a 17-year-old female had ordered a pizza on July 11 shortly after midnight to be delivered to a vacant apartment on Bartlett Street.

When the driver arrived at the address shortly after 1 a.m., they led him halfway up a darkened stairwell, lighting his way with a cigarette lighter. He continued to the top floor, then descended the stairwell and exited the building.

As he approached his car, they beckoned him to a building across the street. Pereyra asked him whether the order was for Calia. He said it was. She told him to enter 187 Bartlett St.

He walked into a dark enclosed porch and handed Perayra the pizza. She told him she needed to go upstairs for the money to pay him. Someone who had been hiding behind the door sprayed him in the face with mace. Perayra and the teen fled the building with the pizza.

Surveillance video footage from the first building showed the two females. The building’s landlord and maintenance supervisor identified the teen as his second-floor tenant. Police confirmed Perayra was the other woman in the video.

Police stopped Perayra while she was driving the next day. She said during an interview at the police station that she was homeless and had been hungry. She said she and her teenage friend had planned to simply grab the pizza and flee when the driver entered the first building, but they had “chickened out.”

They regrouped and planned the same pizza theft at the second building where the teen sprayed the driver.

Police said the teen robbed a cab driver after punching him about a month later in the same area as the pizza robbery.

Pereyra was released on personal recognizance with bed-to-bed transfer to a residential facility. She was ordered to have no contact with the teen or the pizza delivery driver.

She also was ordered not to have any dangerous weapons.

She is expected to appear in court in October for a conference on the disposition of the case.

cwilliams@sunjournal.com