Crime & Safety
Two Sentenced for Violent Armed Robbery of Alexandria Safeway
One person was grazed by a bullet in Nov. 17 robbery.
On a Sunday night at 8:30 p.m., last November, armed robbers held up the Safeway at 500 S. Royal St. in Old Town Alexandria. A shot was fired, grazing a person in the store who was not seriously hurt.
On Friday, two defendants were sentenced to prison for their participation in the Nov. 17 robbery, according to a news release from the FBI.
Calvin Leon Lewis, 30, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced to 35 years in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for two counts of using, carrying and discharging a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence. Ray Allen Dicks, Jr., 26, of Capitol Heights, Md., was sentenced to 12 years in prison for conspiring to commit a robbery affecting interstate commerce.
Lewis also participated in the robbery three days earlier of a tobacco store in Woodbridge, where a store clerk was shot in the head and suffered serious injuries.
According to court records and evidence at trial, three armed and masked men robbed the Safeway in Old Town while another waited nearby in a getaway vehicle.
On March 28, two other defendants—Artemus Lamarr Riley and Louis Anthony Jackson—pleaded guilty for their involvement in the Safeway robbery, as well as three other robberies in King George County, Va. Riley and Jackson were each sentenced to 35 years in prison and ordered to pay $17,134 in restitution.
This case was jointly investigated by the FBI’s Washington Field Office and the Alexandria City, Prince William County, and Washington Metropolitan Police Department, with assistance from the King George County Sheriff’s Office. Assistant U.S. Attorneys Patricia T. Giles and Rebeca H. Bellows prosecuted the case.
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