Charleston Man Sentenced for Armed Robbery

Charleston resident Alfred Jerry has been sentenced to 14 years and three months in prison for armed robbery.

The 30-year-old Jerry was sentenced for the robbery of the Team Wireless store in Charleston in May of 2019. Jerry had been sentenced to 22 years in prison for the offense in February of 2020. He was re-sentenced after a change in Federal law caused a vacation of the original sentence by the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago.

A security recording shows a masked man armed with a revolver enter the store and order two employees into a back room. The gunman took cash and merchandise and fled.

Charleston and Eastern Illinois University police arrested Jerry minutes after the robbery as he fled on foot. Police recovered a loaded revolver, stolen merchandise and a ski mask containing DNA evidence linking Jerry to the robbery nearby.

Jerry has remained in federal custody since his arrest.