Washington, D.C. – A Southeast District of Columbia man, Anthony R. Greene, has been sentenced to 70 months of incarceration after having been found guilty of armed robbery and a related weapons offense in connection with the September 10, 2007 robbery of the Ralph Lauren Polo Store located at 1245 Wisconsin Avenue, NW, U.S. Attorney Jeffrey A. Taylor announced today.

Greene, 39, was found guilty on April 1, 2008, by a Superior Court jury of one count of Armed Robbery and Carrying a Dangerous Weapon. Greene received his sentence early today before the Honorable Harold L. Cushenberry, Jr.

According to the government’s evidence, on September 10, 2007, at approximately 6:45 p.m., Greene entered the Ralph Lauren Polo Store with a backpack and walked over to an area stocked with button-down shirts and removed some of them from one of the cubby holes. He then took the shirts into a nearby dressing room. A few minutes later, the store manager and an employee discovered Greene in the dressing room stuffing the shirts into his back pack. Realizing that Greene was trying to steal the shirts, the store manager requested the shirts back from Greene. Greene grabbed his bag and ran out of the dressing room. The store manager followed and tried to take the bag full of shirts from him. Greene then brandished a box cutter and jabbed it at the manager. The manager was able to jump back fast enough to prevent Greene from cutting him. Greene escaped and a store employee called the police. He was found by the Metropolitan Police Department several hours later with the box cutter.

In announcing the sentence, U.S. Attorney Taylor praised the outstanding efforts of members of the Metropolitan Police Department, especially Officer Christopher Clemens. He also commended the efforts of Paralegals Antoinette Sakamsa and Kalisha Johnson-Clark and Litigation Support Technician Thomas Royal, who helped prepare the case. Finally, he commended the work of Assistant U.S. Attorney Shana Fulton, who investigated and tried the case.