A Los Angeles man is set to trade sunny SoCal for a decade behind bars after sticking up stores and jacking a car with nothing but a BB gun. Namir Malik Ali Greene, 23, was sentenced today to 120 months in a federal clink for his April antics, as confirmed by the U.S. Attorney's Office.
Greene decided to brazenly rob a gas station in Marina del Rey after making sure every other customer had exited—almost as if he was daring fate to swiftly upend his plan. "Put everything in there," he commanded the clerk while brandishing what was mistakenly believed to be a semi-automatic firearm. The clerk complied, stuffing $700 into a brown paper bag and unwittingly funding Greene's short-lived crime wave.
Greene pleaded guilty on September 23 to one count of Hobbs Act robbery, laying to rest any inkling of innocence. U.S. District Judge Sherilyn Peace Garnett meted out the sentence and attached a bill for $17,084 in restitution—to be paid by Greene—for his outsized imitation gun theatrics.
Greene then embarked on seven additional armed robberies across LA County, with Long Beach, Whittier, and Culver City among his stops. His spree came crashing down in mid-April after successfully carjacking a 2010 Honda Accord—again with the toy gun—and taking cops on a dangerous joyride that included speed thrills and traffic chills, according to court documents. His daredevil escape halted abruptly against a curb, letting the law close in on his escapades.
In custody since April 18, the man whose mischief was caught and collared by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives’ Orange County Violent Crime Task Force got a glimpse of his fate with today's verdict.
