A 24-year-old woman has been sentenced to 57 months in prison for her role in a string of armed robberies at Chipotle restaurants in Maryland.
Maryland resident Marvel Alegria, of Gaithersburg, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Richard D. Bennett on November 24, 2014 for conspiring to commit armed robbery in connection with four robberies of Chipotle restaurants.
According to her plea agreement, Alegria was a general manager at the Chipotle restaurant in Mt. Airy, Maryland until July 17, 2012 when she was fired for violating company policies. She became upset about her termination, and began discussing robbing the Chipotle restaurant with co-defendant Lamont Bonds, with whom she was having a relationship.
Alegria advised Bonds of the best time to commit the robbery, and how to access the store and its safe which contained money.
On July 22, 2012, Bonds and Alegria recruited co-defendant Norman Guifarro to participate in the robbery. That evening, Bonds and Guifarro entered the restaurant wearing masks Bonds had made from tee shirts. Bonds, armed with a shotgun, forced the manager into the office at gunpoint and obtained the money from the safe, while Guifarro, armed with a knife, held the other employees on the floor.
Bonds and Guifarro stole $5,000 in cash and fled after forcing the employees into a bathroom. Bonds and Guifarro divided the stolen money among themselves and Alegria.
Alegria drove Bonds to and from the Gaithersburg and Damascus robberies where Bonds stole $7,000 and $3,500, respectively. In each robbery, Bonds forced the manager to open the safe at gunpoint.
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Key Facts
- State: Maryland
- Category: Violent Crime
- Source: DOJ Press Release â†â€â€
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