Robert Hikeen Seigle, Armed Robbery, North Carolina 2013

A Charlotte man has been handed down an 11-year prison sentence for the armed robbery of a Family Dollar store, announced U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina, Anne M. Tompkins.

Robert Hikeen Seigle, 23, of Charlotte, was ordered to serve 136 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for his role in the 2010 armed robbery of a Family Dollar store located on University City Boulevard in Charlotte.

According to court documents, on the morning of October 3, 2010, Seigle robbed the Family Dollar store. He entered the store shortly after it opened and pulled a gun on the Family Dollar employee working at the cash register. Seigle, who had previously worked for Family Dollar, pointed the gun at the employee, racked the slide on the pistol and asked the employee if he wanted to die.

Seigle stole $100 from the cash register and then walked the employee at gun point to the back of the store. He bound the employee’s hands together at the wrist with wire ties and shoved the employee into the men’s restroom. Seigle barricaded the restroom door with shelves of merchandise and fled the store.

When Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department officers arrested Seigle on October 15, 2010, he had in his possession the same .45 caliber pistol used during the Family Dollar store robbery. In October 2011, Seigle pleaded guilty to Hobbes Act robbery, and to possession and brandishing a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence.

Seigle is currently in local federal custody in the Western District of North Carolina and will be transferred into the custody of the Federal Bureau of Prisons upon designation of a federal facility. Federal sentences are served without the possibility of parole.

The investigation was handled by ATF and CMPD. The prosecution for the government was handled by Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert Gleason of the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Charlotte.

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