GREENSBORO, N.C. – A Durham man who participated in the home
invasion robbery of a tobacco store owner was sentenced to prison Thursday,
announced Matthew G.T. Martin, United States Attorney for the Middle District
of North Carolina.
DEION TYRELL LILES, age 23, pleaded guilty on September 6,
2018, to distribution of cocaine, and on August 19, 2019, to conspiracy to
interfere with commerce by robbery. LILES was sentenced for both convictions on
November 7, 2019, by United States District Judge N. Carlton Tilley, Jr. to 84
months of imprisonment, followed by 3 years of supervised release.
LILES was one of eleven defendants identified as members of
the Nine Trey Gangstas who committed acts of violence throughout North Carolina
and along the entire east coast of the United States. That gang systematically
targeted Middle Eastern and Asian business owners for home-invasion robberies
after discovering that these owners often kept the proceeds of their respective
businesses at their homes. LILES was one of seven defendants who took part in
the robbery of a tobacco store owner at the store owner’s Durham home on December
20, 2016. Gang members including LILES had followed the store owner from his
tobacco store business to his residence prior to the robbery.
This case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of
Investigation, the Durham Police Department, and the Durham County Sheriff’s
Office, and was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Terry M.
Meinecke for the Middle District of North Carolina.
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