NEWPORT NEWS, Va. – A Newport News man was sentenced today
to 33 years in prison for conspiring to rob five Tidewater businesses at
gun-point.
Olandjuwan Beale, 21, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to
interfere with commerce by robbery, and two counts of possession, use and
brandishing a firearm in crime of violence on August 3. According to court
documents, Beale and two co-defendants planned and executed five commercial
robberies in Newport News and Hampton, using firearms in each, over a 10-hour
period on March 6, robbing a Newport News 7-Eleven, 1st Stop Mart, Luckie’s
Convenience Store and Mary’s Deli and Convenience Store, as well as a 1st Stop
Mart in Hampton. In each robbery, Beale approached the clerks and ordered them
to provide cash. By the last robbery in Hampton, Beale also robbed customers in
the store. Beale was arrested after a concerned citizen photographed the
license plate of the vehicle the men used to flee the final robbery and
forwarded the information to the Hampton Police Division.
Dana J. Boente, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of
Virginia, Thomas L. Chittum, III, Special Agent in Charge of the Bureau of
Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’ (ATF) Washington Field Division,
Terry L. Sult, Chief of Hampton Police Division, and Michael C. Grinstead,
Acting Chief of Newport News Police, made the announcement after sentencing by
Senior U.S. District Judge Robert G. Doumar. Assistant U.S. Attorney Howard J.
Zlotnick and Special Assistant U.S. Attorney Amy E. Cross prosecuted the case.
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