This just in from the somd.com Headline News:
Title: Charlotte Hall Man Gets 15 Years in Federal Prison for Armed Robberies
Date: 06-27-2016 03:42 PM
The sentence was announced by United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Rod J. Rosenstein; Special Agent in Charge Kevin Perkins of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Baltimore Field Office; St. Mary's County Sheriff Tim Cameron; and Colonel William M. Pallozzi, Superintendent of the Maryland State Police.
According to his plea agreement, on June 18, 2014, Lee and Furman Troy entered a jewelry store in Charlotte Hall. Lee brandished a gun at the store owner and Troy bound the victim with duct tape. After obtaining the key to the jewelry counter from an employee, they stole jewelry worth approximately $8,890, cash, a laptop computer valued at approximately $2,100 and other items.
On June 22, 2014, Lee and Troy robbed a pharmacy in Mechanicsville, Maryland. Again, Lee brandished a gun and Troy bound the employee with duct tape. They stole cash and prescription bottles containing oxycodone, methadone, hydrocodone and endocet, valued at approximately $8,997.
Furman Troy, age 45, of Charlotte Hall, Maryland, pleaded guilty to his participation in the scheme and was sentenced to 12 years in prison. In addition, Michael Burgess, age 54, of Alexandria, Virginia, and Abdelrahim Ayyad, a/k/a Sahid, age 50, of White Plains, Maryland previously pleaded guilty to their roles in the robberies and await sentencing.
United States Attorney Rod J. Rosenstein commended the FBI, St. Mary's County Sheriff's Office and Maryland State Police for their work in the investigation, and recognized the St. Mary's County State's Attorney's Office for its assistance in the case. Mr. Rosenstein thanked Assistant United States Attorney Leah J. Bressack, who prosecuted the case.
I would also like to thank the patrol officers who responded to these crimes as well as the detectives who worked the cases and arrested these criminals. Without their work, these attorneys would not have a case to prosecute and could not take this opportunity to take credit and to put their own names in the press for putting these criminals in jail!
