Curtis Fogg Sentenced to 22 Years for Armed Robberies

Washington, D.C. – Curtis Fogg, 29, faced a grim fate today as he was sentenced to 22 years in prison for orchestrating a series of armed robberies across the nation’s capital and Maryland. The spree, which lasted three fateful weeks in 2014, left businesses reeling and residents on edge.

Fogg’s criminality reached its peak in August and September 2014, when he systematically targeted commercial establishments. His weapon of choice? A firearm that terrorized victims and witnesses alike. The tally of his crimes? Ten separate armed robberies.

His first crime came on Aug. 14, 2014, where Fogg made off with $250 and phones from the New Look Hair Salon in Northeast Washington. The spree continued with hits at Papa John’s Pizza, Patron Convenience Store, Cricket cellular telephone store, Subway sandwich shop, Mama’s Pizza Kitchen, Metro PCS cellular telephone store, Boost Mobile cellular telephone store, and two more Metro PCS locations.

On his most audacious day, Aug. 30, he netted $284 from a Subway shop and stole $469 from a Metro PCS store. The final nail in the coffin was on Sept. 3, 2014, when Fogg walked into a Metro PCS store in Oxon Hill, Md., and made off with 15 new cellular phones, $539.75 in cash, and personal items.

Fogg’s arrest came on Sept. 5, 2014. His history was no stranger to law enforcement: he had been on supervised release following a 2009 conviction for attempted possession of cocaine. He faced additional charges for threats and possession with the intent to distribute heroin.

The sentencing was announced by U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Channing D. Phillips, along with his Maryland counterpart Rod J. Rosenstein, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office Andrew Vale, Acting Chief of MPD Peter Newsham, and Prince George’s County Police Department Chief Hank Stawinski. Fogg pled guilty to nine counts of interference with interstate commerce by robbery, one count of using, carrying, and possessing a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence, and one count of armed robbery. He was sentenced to 20 to 22½ years by Senior Judge Paul L. Friedman, who also ordered five years of supervised release following his prison term.