ALEXANDRIA, VA—Avery Duane Bines, 32, of
Washington, D.C., was sentenced today to 120 months in prison, followed by five
years of supervised release, for committing two armed robberies of truck
drivers who were delivering Apple products to area stores.
Neil H. MacBride, United States Attorney
for the Eastern District of Virginia; Ken Cuccinelli, II, Attorney General of
Virginia; James W. McJunkin, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s
Washington Field Office; and Colonel David Rohrer, Chief of the Fairfax County
Police Department, made the announcement after Bines was sentenced by United
States District Judge Gerald Bruce Lee.
Bines pled guilty on July 9, 2012, to
using a firearm during a crime of violence. According to court records, Bines
had previously worked for a company responsible for delivering Apple products
to area stores. In 2011 and 2012, Bines conspired with others to rob that
company’s truck drivers.
On June 15, 2011, Bines’s conspirators
intentionally drove his vehicle into the side of a delivery truck outside the
Fair Oaks Mall in Fairfax, Virginia. When the delivery truck driver stopped to
inspect the damage to his vehicle, a conspirator pointed a gun at the victim
and blindfolded and bound him. Bines’s coconspirator drove the victim’s truck,
with the victim still bound inside, three miles to a gas station, where Bines
and his conspirators stole approximately $41,000 worth of Apple products from
the truck.
On October 30, 2011, Bines conspired
with others to rob a long-haul truck driver who was delivering Apple products
in Prince George’s County, Maryland. During this attack, the victim was
pistol-whipped and bound, and conspirators stole approximately $71,000 worth of
Apple products.
The investigation was conducted by FBI’s
Washington Field Office and the Fairfax County Police Department. Virginia
Assistant Attorney General and Special Assistant United States Attorney Marc
Birnbaum is prosecuting the case on behalf of the United States.
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