Helicopters and heavily armed police units swarmed Victory Boulevard on April 27, shutting down part of the neighborhood for two hours after an armed robbery at the Convenient Food Market in Tompkinsville. But that’s the sentence a Brooklyn teen who turned 18 on Tuesday received today for his role in an armed deli robbery in Tompkinsville that sparked a tense police confrontation.
Kwameek Stallings and two older cohorts held up the Convenient Food Market at 164 Victory Blvd. on April 27, said prosecutors.
According to police, a co-defendant Willie Gary, 23, held a gun to the deli clerk’s head while another defendant, Dwayne Sanders, 22, and Stallings grabbed money from the cash register. They also swiped lottery tickets from the counter.
One man in the store was forced into a back bathroom at gunpoint.
Sanders then took Gary’s gun, ordered the clerk to hand over his wallet and repeatedly pistol-whipped him on the neck, court papers allege.
Cops arrived before the trio could make their getaway, and the crooks hid under the store’s bathroom insulation.
Helicopters and heavily armed police units swarmed the block, shutting down part of the neighborhood for two hours until they found the suspects in the bathroom.
After their arrest, Gary tried to give police a fake name, while Stallings attempted to convince police he was 14 years old, said court papers.
Stallings pleaded guilty two weeks ago in state Supreme Court, St. George, to a felony count of attempted second-degree robbery, said a spokesman for District Attorney Daniel Donovan.
Gary and Sanders each pleaded guilty on June 16 to attempted first-degree robbery. The Brooklyn residents are slated to be sentenced on Monday.
Besides his prison term, Stallings is subject to two years’ post-release supervision.
His lawyer, Mark Geisser, declined comment on the case.
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