COLUMBUS, Ohio — A Toledo man was sentenced to 121 months in prison Thursday for an armed robbery in Columbus in 2020, according to United States Attorney Kenneth Parker.
Court documents state that Juarvez Reemos Juan Whitfield-Neeley, 25, shot three people during separate robberies in March 2020.
While robbing the Berkeley & Main Market in Columbus on March 15, 2020, he shot the store clerk in the back of the knee. A brief struggle ensued, and a gun in the clerk’s pocket fell to the floor. Whitfield-Neeley stole the clerk’s gun and fled.
Two weeks later in Toledo, Whitfield-Neeley used the gun he had stolen from Columbus 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 the cash from the register.
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 there to 207 months in prison.
Whitfield-Neeley will serve the 121-month sentence consecutively to the sentence he is already serving.