Two thugs who terrorized local businesses in unrelated crime binges have been sentenced to nearly two decades behind bars, the Justice Department revealed. The first culprit, Angel Servellon, a 30-year-old El Salvador national, and the second, Houston's own DaVonte Williams, 29, each faced the iron fist of justice after their guilty pleas for a series of armed robberies were entered last August.
U.S. District Judge Alfred Bennett slapped Servellon with a 233-month sentence—24 months for his trio of stick-ups and an additional 168 months for the firearm infractions, set to run one after another, as reported by the Justice Department. Not to mention the looming deportation also highlighted by the court. In an eerily similar storyline, Williams was dealt a 235-month combined sentence, issued by U.S. District Judge Gray Miller, for his double robbery act, incorporating a consecutive 84 months for packing heat during the felonies.
“Although these men went on different crime sprees, targeting a drug store, convenience store, and gas station, wand while both were sentenced by different judges, the result was essentially the same - almost 20 years in prison,” U.S. Attorney Alamdar S. Hamdani said. Servellon's reign of terror unfolded on Feb. 16, 2020, when he raided a Village Food Store and continued his spree across Houston, taking what he could at gunpoint until cops caught him, a gun magazine in his pocket and a semi-automatic recently discarded in some nearby brush.
Williams kicked off his string of terrors on Jan. 12, 2022, sticking up an Exxon gas station and a CVS the same night. His car caught the eye of law enforcement post-robbery, which led to a high-speed chase defying traffic laws — a detail provided by the Justice Department. The firearm found in his ride matched the one used during his escapades, sealing his fate alongside the distinct limp that matched surveillance footage.
Crime Gun Strike Force, alongside the Houston Police Department, took the lead on both investigations, with Assistant U.S. Attorney Jill Stotts at the prosecution's helm.
