A sentencing hearing is scheduled Friday for a South Los Angeles man who ran the so-called “Chesapeake Bandits” armed robbery crew that stuck up an armored truck on Valentine’s Day in 2022, a heist in which the driver was held at gunpoint and more than $166,000 in cash and checks were stolen.
Deneyvous Hobson, 39, of the West Adams neighborhood of Los Angeles, was found guilty in November 2024 of one count each of conspiracy, interference with commerce by robbery (known as a Hobbs Act crime), using a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence and being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition.
Evidence showed that Hobson and his half-brother — James Russell Davis, 37, also of West Adams — robbed the armored truck by ambushing the driver after the driver had finished servicing an ATM at the Wescom Credit Union in Hawthorne. During the heist, Davis fired an 9mm semi-automatic handgun he was carrying, prosecutors said…