{"id":8296,"date":"2018-05-26T00:26:03","date_gmt":"2018-05-26T00:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/?p=3063320"},"modified":"2018-05-26T00:26:03","modified_gmt":"2018-05-26T00:26:03","slug":"man-sentenced-up-to-12-years-in-prison-for-two-armed-robberies-of-same-denver-pot-shop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/man-sentenced-up-to-12-years-in-prison-for-two-armed-robberies-of-same-denver-pot-shop\/","title":{"rendered":"Man sentenced up to 12 years in prison for two armed robberies of same Denver pot shop"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0 5px 5px;float:right;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/man-sentenced-up-to-12-years-in-prison-for-two-armed-robberies-of-same-denver-pot-shop\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><div class=\"media_block\"><\/div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3063391\" class=\"wp-caption alignright size-article_inline_half\"><img class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/man-sentenced-up-to-12-years-in-prison-for-two-armed-robberies-of-same-denver-pot-shop\" alt=\"Tayone Givens\" width=\"480\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">\n<p>Denver District Attorney&#8217;s Office<\/p>\n<p>Tayone Givens<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>One of four men charged with marijuana store robberies in Denver pleaded guilty Thursday and was sentenced up to 12 years in prison.<\/p>\n<p>Tayone Givens, 21, pleaded guilty in Denver District Court to two counts of aggravated robbery, one count for two separate robberies of the same business. He was sentenced to 12 and 10 years in prison, with the terms running concurrently, according to the district attorney\u2019s office.\u00a0Restitution, as part of the sentence, will be determined at a later date.<\/p>\n<p>Givens and codefendants were charged in a July 28, 2017, armed robbery of the\u00a0Green Dragon marijuana store, 5130 E. Colfax Ave., from which cash and marijuana products were robbed.<\/p>\n<p>The same business was robbed, also at gunpoint, on Aug. 14, 2017, the release said.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2017\/10\/25\/marijuana-shop-robbery-suspects-caught-gps\/\">A GPS tracker<\/a> planted in the stolen money led police to the suspects.<\/p>\n<p>Givens and co-defendants Thomas Wilson, 23, and Myles Stephens, 29, were charged in both robberies.\u00a0Marrell Jones, 26, was charged in the August robbery.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"related right\" \/>\n<p>Jones\u00a0pleaded guilty in January to one count of\u00a0robbery and is scheduled to be sentenced July 2.\u00a0Stephens\u00a0is scheduled for jury trials June 25 and July 16\u00a0in his two cases.\u00a0Wilson\u00a0is scheduled to appear in court July 6\u00a0for disposition hearings in connection with his two cases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><\/div>\n<p>One of four men charged with marijuana store robberies in Denver pleaded guilty Thursday and was sentenced up to 12 years in prions. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6811,6812,7540,7427,6813,77,6814,9,5019,5890,7644,7504,1,3,61,1736],"tags":[6816,6817,7541,7429,6818,2655,6819,5022,41,7647,7507],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8296"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}