CHARLESTON, WV— A man who robbed drug dealers was sentence to six years on Wednesday in federal court.
Brandon Davis, 24, from Wytheville, Virginia, had plead guilty in October 2012 to his role in robbing Charleston drug dealer Cabell Franklin.
Davis admitted that on Jan. 18, 2012, he and Robert Barcliff committed the robbery, during which Franklin was shot in the leg and stabbed.
This robbery was part of a larger conspiracy among Barcliff and his associates.
Beginning in the fall of 2011, Barcliff, Davis, Keith Glenn, Darrell Gillespie, Jamaa Johnson and others agreed to commit armed home-invasion robberies of drug dealers in West Virginia, Virginia, Pennsylvania and Tennessee, according to authorities.
The robberies were to steal drugs, drug proceeds and firearms. The group targeted drug dealers because they believed it unlikely they would call the police, officials said.
Barcliff was recently sentenced to 16 years in federal prison. Johnson and Gillespie are scheduled to be sentenced in May 2015, officials said.