A South Los Angeles man faces sentencing Friday for the armed robbery of an armored truck in Hawthorne on Valentine’s Day in 2022, a heist in which more than $166,000 in cash and customer checks were stolen and a firearm was discharged after the driver was held at gunpoint.
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, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
Evidence showed that Hobson and co-defendant 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. After Hobson and two associates stole about $166,640 in cash and checks from the ATM, one of the men fired an 9mm semi-automatic handgun he was carrying, prosecutors said…