Jabarr Emerson Jr., Armed Robbery, District of Columbia 2016

Teenagers Sentenced to Prison for Armed Robbery in Washington DC

WASHINGTON, DC – Two teenagers, Jabarr Emerson Jr. and Dalonte Stewart, have been sentenced to prison for their roles in an armed robbery that took place in Northeast Washington last September.

According to the government’s evidence, on September 22, 2016, at approximately 12:45 a.m., Emerson, Stewart, and an accomplice, all wearing masks, approached a woman in the 1900 block of Lincoln Road NE. One assailant grabbed the victim from behind and placed her in a chokehold while pointing a handgun to her head. The group demanded her money, and she replied that she did not have any. When asked where her money was located, she told them that it was inside her apartment, and the three then forced the victim into her home.

Once inside the apartment, the assailants realized that a man was also present, and subsequently they held him at gunpoint and demanded his money, too. The victims told the assailants that they had a safe and where the key could be found. The assailants retrieved the key, located the safe, opened the safe, and took approximately $400.

Emerson also pled guilty to a second robbery on August 26, 2016, also in Northeast Washington. In this instance, at 2:50 a.m., the victim had just arrived at his home in the unit block of R Street NE. He was walking into his basement apartment when Emerson and a second assailant approached from behind. The victim heard a noise, turned around, and saw Emerson and his cohort, wearing hooded sweatshirts tied around their faces, with long guns that appeared to be sawed-off shotguns. One of the assailants demanded that the victim open the door, get on his knees, and crawl through the door while the gun was placed to the back of his head.

The Honorable Maribeth Raffinan sentenced both defendants to four years in prison for the armed robbery. She also sentenced Emerson to an additional 18 months in prison for the second robbery offense. Following their prison terms, both will be placed on five years of supervised release. Emerson was sentenced today and Stewart was sentenced on March 9, 2017.

U.S. Attorney Channing D. Philips commended the work of the Metropolitan Police Department, who investigated the cases, and the Latent Fingerprint Unit of the District of Columbia Department of Forensic Sciences for their assistance. Assistant U.S. Attorneys Richard Barker and Vivien Cockburn also prosecuted the matter.

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