Toledo man sentenced to prison for Columbus armed robbery in 2020
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – A Toledo man was sentenced to prison on Thursday in relation to a 2020 armed robbery that occurred in Columbus.
Juarvez Reemos Juan Whitfield-Neeley, 25, of Toledo, was sentenced to 10 years and one month in prison, according to the United States Attorney of the Southern District of Ohio Kenneth Parker.
According to court documents, in March 2020, Whitfield-Neeley shot three people during two separate robberies. On March 15, 2020, Whitfield-Neely robbed the Berkeley & Main Market in Columbus and shot a store clerk in the back of the knee. A struggle followed the shooting, during which a gun fell out of the clerk’s pocket. Whitefield-Neely then stole the clerk’s gun and fled the scene.
Two weeks later in Toledo, Whitfield-Neely used the gun he stole and fired several shots at two clerks in a corner store. He shot both clerks in the torso, stole a gun from one of the injured clerks and took cash from the register, according to Parker.
In June 2020, Whitfield-Neeley was charged for the Columbus robbery and shooting.
He was later taken into custody in the Northern District of Ohio, where he pleaded guilty to crimes associated with the Toledo robbery and was sentenced to 207 months in prison.
Whitfield-Neeley will serve the 121-month sentence consecutively to the sentence he is already serving.