The Virginian-Pilot
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NORFOLK
Two men convicted in a string of bank robberies in Ghent and Colonial Place were sentenced Friday to prison.
Dion N. Brown pleaded guilty to two counts of robbery and one charge of attempted robbery, and received 11 years in prison.
Willie Lee Huggins, who drove a getaway vehicle, was convicted by a jury of two counts of robbery and two counts of conspiracy, according to court records. He received 16 years.
Brown, 21, is from Norfolk. Huggins, 26, is from Texas.
Brown, wearing sunglasses and sometimes a hat, demanded cash from three Norfolk banks in May through July 2010, according to a stipulation of facts filed with the court.
On May 11, Brown handed a note to a teller at a branch of Bank of the Commonwealth, demanded money, and escaped with an undisclosed amount of cash.
On June 30, he entered the Chartway Federal Credit Union inside a supermarket on 21st Street and demanded money from the tellers, court records state. He took $2,700 and fled on foot. On July 12, he tried to rob another credit union branch on Boush Street but was unsuccessful.
Huggins participated in the May and June robberies, court records state.
Louis Hansen, (757) 446-2341, louis.hansen@pilotonline.com
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