Daijahn Reed Gets 11 Years for Walgreens Heist

Daijahn Antwan Reed, 22, of Indianapolis, Indiana, is locked up for 11 years and three months without parole after a violent, premeditated heist at a Jefferson City Walgreens. The armed robbery, carried out just after midnight on July 25, 2018, involved guns, zip ties, and a high-speed chase that ended in a fiery crash and the recovery of over 4,000 stolen pills.

Reed pleaded guilty on August 17, 2021, to one count of armed robbery and one count of brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence. U.S. District Judge Roseann Ketchmark handed down the sentence in federal court, sealing Reed’s fate as the third and final defendant to be punished in the case. Co-defendant Jerome Scott King, 22, of Speedway, Indiana, received 14 years without parole. Raymond Allen Craig, 23, also of Indianapolis, got the same 11-year, three-month sentence as Reed.

The robbery was no solo act. It was a coordinated strike by The Mob, an Indianapolis-based criminal crew tied to a string of violent pharmacy raids across the U.S. in 2018. Surveillance and testimony show Reed, Craig, and an unidentified fourth man stormed the Walgreens at 2002 Missouri Boulevard, wearing medical masks and gloves. One brandished a stolen Smith & Wesson 9mm, zip-tied the clerk, and forced him to the floor while Reed and Craig vaulted the counter, threatened the pharmacist, and grabbed controlled substances worth $9,264.

Police arrived during the escape. King, who had been driving the getaway car, led officers on a pursuit eastbound on U.S. Highway 54 into Callaway County. As cops closed in, suspects hurled evidence from the car—including the stolen drugs. Spike strips deployed at the U.S. 54-AA/OO interchange shredded the tires. The vehicle veered off the road, crossed an outer lane, and crashed near Jazel Lane in Holts Summit. King and Craig were caught at the scene. The fourth man vanished. Reed never made it to the car.

He turned up hours later at a stranger’s door. Around 4:15 a.m., Reed knocked, asked to use the phone, and ended up confessing the whole crime to the witness. He admitted to robbing the store and stayed for hours before revealing his location on the roof of the O’Reilly Auto Parts store at 1010 Missouri Blvd. Police arrested him there. Worse, court records show Reed later conspired with Craig to kill the witness who turned him in—a chilling add-on to his violent record.

The case was prosecuted by Special Assistant U.S. Attorney Heather D. Richenberger and Assistant U.S. Attorney Jim Lynn. The investigation, led by federal and state law enforcement, exposed a network of organized theft and brutality. Though Reed and his crew failed to name the fourth robber, justice landed hard on those who did face the court. The stolen 9mm, the drugs, the threats—none of it spared them from long sentences in a crime that began with greed and ended in federal prison.