26-Year-Old Javaughn Berry Sentenced To 115 Months In Federal Prison For Commercial Robberies

BALTIMORE (WJZ) —Officials announced that 26-year-old Javaughn Berry, of Baltimore, was sentenced o 115 months successful national situation followed by 3 years of supervised merchandise for 3 equipped commercialized robberies.

According to his blameworthy plea, from October 2019 to December 2019, Berry and a spouse committed three armed commercial robberies. In each robbery, the robbers showed a firearm and stole a victim’s vehicle to flee the scene.  Investigators with the FBI obtained compartment telephone records that showed that Berry and his partner’s phones were adjacent to each of the victim businesses around the time of the robberies.

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The plea statement besides shows that Berry and a spouse robbed a Baltimore pharmacy.  After the robbery, Baltimore Police Department responded to the scene and spoke to a victim who reported that the 2 men wore achromatic masks, achromatic gloves, glasses, and yellowish reflective vests.

Before the robbery, some men were picking up trash in the parking lot.  When the pharmacy opened astatine 8:00 a.m., the suspects entered.  One fishy pointed a achromatic revolver astatine an worker and demanded entree to the safe.  The suspects took $1,630 in cash from the safe and tied the victim’s hands with zip ties.

They besides took the victim’s keys and fled in the victim’s vehicle.

Berry and his spouse besides robbed a retail store in Millersville, Maryland, connected November 17, 2019.  Victims reported to Anne Arundel County Police that 2 men entered the store arsenic it was closing and demanded money. The suspects stole $3,200 in cash and zip-tied the employees.

One of the suspects struck a victim on the head and pulled her to the ground. Just similar the pharmacy robbery, Berry and his spouse fled the scene by stealing an employee’s vehicle.

Lastly, Berry admitted that helium and his spouse robbed a Parkville, Maryland concatenation restaurant.  On the morning of December 13, 2019, Baltimore County Police Department (BCPD) detectives responded to the restaurant and found the shift manager and his co-worker inside.

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According to the victim employees, the shift manager and co-worker unlocked the front doors and 2 antheral suspects entered the store wearing dark, hooded sweatshirts and masks.  Berry’s spouse approached the shift manager, pulled retired a revolver, and demanded that helium open the safe.  Berry’s spouse stole $3,393.37 in cash, then put the shift manager’s wrists and ankles in zip ties.

On December 14, 2019, a BCPD serviceman found the vehicle stolen during the restaurant robbery parked a fewer blocks distant from Berry’s residence.  BCPD officers placed a GPS instrumentality on the vehicle to way its movements.

Berry and his partner were arrested connected December 16, 2019, aft BCPD tracked the stolen vehicle to the intersection of Joppa Road and Harford Road in Carney, Maryland.  The spouse was driving behind the stolen conveyance and was stopped by officers and arrested.  After getting a hunt warrant for the car, officers recovered a achromatic replica handgun, respective achromatic gloves, achromatic zip ties, and a yellowish reflective vest.

Investigators continued following the stolen conveyance that was driven by Berry.  Berry past abandoned the car and fled connected foot.  Investigators recovered Berry walking on Harford Road soon afterward.  He showed investigators the telephone log connected his phone, which showed respective precocious completed and missed calls to the partner’s number.

After waiving his Miranda rights, Berry told officers that helium saw the stolen car earlier that greeting and wanted to take it for a joyousness ride.

A hunt warrant executed connected his telephone showed photos of Berry holding ample amounts of currency that were taken on the morning of the archetypal robbery. Another warrant that was executed connected the partner’s telephone showed a representation of a conveyance akin to the vehicle stolen from the employee in the 2nd robbery.

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Berry admitted that helium took wealth from the victims, against the victims’ wills, by utilizing existent oregon threatened force, violence, oregon fearfulness of injury.