NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) – A jury convicted a man on Wednesday, March 12, of robbery using a firearm, conspiring to commit robbery and resisting arrest after he enlisted the help of a woman to commit a bank robbery in 2023 and fought with the officer who was arresting him, breaking the officer’s wrist.
The Office of the Commonwealth’s Attorney for the City of Norfolk said in a release that on Dec. 11, 2023, an unidentified woman entered a credit union on Granby Street in the Wards Corner area and passed a teller a note. This note said, “You have one minute to put all the loose money in the bag or you will get shot.”
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The teller alerted Norfolk Police to the incident by activating a silent alarm. She then put $2,000 cash and a false bundle of cash containing a GPS tracking device in a bank bag. The woman then left with the bag of money.
Surveillance video from the credit union showed that the unidentified woman was wearing a black wig, a detail which the teller also testified to in court.
Tracking the GPS device, police traced the stolen cash to a gas station further north on Granby Street. When officers arrived there, they found Anton Demetrius Williams Jr., 23, leaving a vehicle that was parked in the near-empty lot. Williams then ran away…