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BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Darnell Gerald Gaither Jr. connected Friday pleaded blameworthy to national robbery and firearm charges stemming from 35 equipped robberies successful the region, the Maryland U.S. Attorney’s Office announced.
According to his blameworthy plea, Gaither admitted to committing astatine slightest 35 robberies crossed the authorities betwixt December 2018 and November 2019, hitting fast-food restaurants, wide stores, compartment telephone stores, gaming stores, a gym and concatenation pharmacies. Sometimes helium robbed the aforesaid determination much than once, national prosecutors said.
Gaither brandished a firearm during astatine slightest 1 robbery and partially revealed his limb 5 different times. On respective occasions, Gaither passed a enactment to employees stating helium had a gun.
On October 25, 2019, Gaither went to a Baltimore determination of a smoothie franchise and handed a enactment to the cashier that said, “I person a weapon springiness maine each the cash,” national prosecutors said. After the cashier refused to unfastened the register, Gaither pulled a handgun and said helium would termination her.
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The idiosyncratic opened the registry and Gaither took the cash. He past directed employees to instrumentality him to a harmless successful the backmost truthful helium could instrumentality much money.
Five days aboriginal Gaither went into a Baltimore wide store and handed the cashier a enactment that read, “You cognize what it is.” He displayed the grip of a weapon successful his waistband and was handed $197.
Gaither faces a maximum of 20 years successful national situation for robbery and a minimum 7 years for brandishing a firearm successful furtherance of a convulsive crime, followed by 5 years of supervised release.
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Sentencing is scheduled for Dec. 6.
CBS Baltimore Staff
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