A 49-year-old Detroit man was sentenced
yesterday in federal court in Detroit for armed robbery and related charges,
announced United States Attorney Barbara L. McQuade. Ms. McQuade was joined in
the announcement by Special Agent in Charge Robert D. Foley, III, Federal
Bureau of Investigation.
Andra Coleman was sentenced by the
Honorable Marianne O. Battani to 120 months in prison, to be followed by two
years of supervised release.
The facts established in court are that
Coleman entered the CVS Pharmacy at 8900 Telegraph in the city of Redford on
January 15, 2012. Armed with a handgun, Coleman first disarmed the security
guard working in the pharmacy. As the store manager saw the masked gunman, he
quickly dialed 911. Employees of the pharmacy were threatened, forced into the
manager’s office, and ordered to the floor. Mr. Coleman then ordered the
manager, at gunpoint, to open the store safe. Coleman took about $1,500 and
fled.
Officers recovered two weapons along a
path that Coleman took as he fled the scene. The gun that Coleman had brought
with him, fully loaded with a round chambered, had been reported as stolen in Detroit
a few months earlier.
United States Attorney Barbara McQuade
stated, “Criminals who commit violent crimes with guns harm our quality of
life. Stiff sentences like this one are needed to protect the public.”
Special Agent in Charge Foley stated, “Gun
violence instills fear in our communities and endangers lives. The FBI is
committed to arresting those responsible and seeing them prosecuted to the
fullest extent of the law.”
The cooperative efforts of the Redford
and Dearborn Police Departments, as well as the Federal Bureau of
Investigation’s Violent Crime Task Force, were recognized and applauded by U.S.
Attorney McQuade. Assistant United States Attorney John O’Brien of the office’s
Violent and Organized Crime Unit prosecuted the case for the United States.
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