Men sentenced to federal prison in Woodbridge robbery, shooting
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Two men were sentenced Friday for their roles in a string of violent robberies in November, including one that left a Woodbridge store clerk seriously injured.
Calvin Leon Lewis, 30, of Washington, was sentenced to 35 years in federal prison, and five years of supervised release, for two counts of carrying and discharging a firearm in a crime of violence and Ray Allen Dicks, Jr., 26, of Capitol Heights, Md. was sentenced to 12 years in prison for conspiring to commit a robbery affecting interstate commerce, prosecutors said in a news release.
Lewis pleaded guilty in April to participating in a Nov. 14 robbery at U.S. 1 Tobacco in Woodbridge and a Nov. 17 robbery of a Safeway grocery store in Alexandria.
According to documents on file at U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Lewis and others stole about $5,000 and cigarettes from the U.S. 1 Tobacco store. During the robbery, the men shot a store clerk in the head. The clerk was seriously injured, but survived, prosecutors said.
The court documents state that Lewis, Dicks, and two other men, Artemus Lamarr Riley and Louis Anthony Jackson, then went to the Safeway Food Store at 500 S. Royal St. in Alexandria on Nov. 16, “to conduct surveillance of the store in order to commit a robbery.”
The men returned the next day to rob the store, stealing about $7,900. Two shots were fired during that robbery, but no one was injured, according to the court documents.
A jury in May found Dicks guilty of conspiring to commit the Safeway robbery. Riley and Jackson pleaded guilty in March to their roles in the Safeway robbery and three other robberies in King George County. They were each sentenced to 35 years in prison.