Deaundre Blount

Introduction

Deaundre Blount, a 33-year-old from the District of Columbia, was found guilty by a federal jury on all counts for his role in a violent multi-state robbery crew that targeted pharmacies and cellular retail stores in the District, Maryland, Virginia, and New Jersey, seeking prescription drugs and cellphones the members could resell in Washington. Following about a week of trial, the jury deliberated only a few hours before convicting Blount of conspiracy to interfere with interstate commerce by robbery under the Hobbs Act, conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute controlled substances drawn from the pharmacy robberies, and three individual counts of Hobbs Act robbery. The crew’s spree ran from May 9, 2020, through May 26, 2021; the November 5, 2026 verdict closes the case against one of its members while his co-leaders already serve long sentences.

Background Information

The crew’s pattern was repetitive and armed: pharmacies and phone stores robbed for inventory with street value. Blount was found guilty in connection with three of the crew’s robberies — the May 9, 2020, robbery of the Walgreens Pharmacy on State Road 33 in Neptune, New Jersey; the June 8, 2020, robbery of a CVS Pharmacy on E. Joppa Road in Nottingham, Maryland; and the June 9, 2020, robbery of a T-Mobile store on Baltimore Avenue in College Park, Maryland. Surveillance photographs of the Neptune and Nottingham robberies were part of the public record the U.S. Attorney’s Office released with the verdict. Multiple co-defendants had already been sentenced before Blount’s trial reached a jury.

The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation

Convicted by a jury; sentencing pending. Deaundre Blount was found guilty on all counts — Hobbs Act robbery conspiracy, a drug-distribution conspiracy, and three robbery counts — for his role in a mid-Atlantic robbery crew that hit pharmacies and phone stores from Virginia to Northern New Jersey.

The case against Blount was built on the crew’s documented robbery record across four states, with the trial evidence tying him to three specific armed robberies in a three-neighborhood arc: the Neptune Walgreens, the Nottingham CVS, and the College Park T-Mobile. The jury’s few hours of deliberation after a week-long trial resolved all five counts against him at once. The drug conspiracy count reflected the crew’s purpose in robbing pharmacies — controlled substances that could be redistributed — making Blount’s conviction simultaneously a robbery case and a narcotics case.

The sentencing record around him shows what the crew cost its members. Conspiracy co-leader Ashley Gause, 33, of the District, was sentenced on October 13 to 140 months for the robbery conspiracy, the drug conspiracy, and eight individual Hobbs Act robbery counts. Co-leader D’Marrell Mitchell, 36, was sentenced June 18 to 192 months on the same conspiracy pair plus nine robbery counts. Floyd Neal, 32, received 157 months after pleading guilty to multiple robbery counts and possessing a firearm during a drug trafficking offense. Ashawntea Henderson, 33, was sentenced to 57 months after pleading to interference with commerce by robbery and aiding and abetting. Glenn Dolford, 32, drew 38 months concurrent with a 42-month Superior Court term for an aggregate of 80 months — while already serving a 22-year sentence for murder. Terrance Branham, 36, was sentenced to 78 months including a firearm count.

Public Reaction and Consequences

“This defendant was a member of a violent robbery crew that terrorized pharmacy employees and retail workers from Virginia to Northern New Jersey, showing no regard for the safety of workers or the communities they harmed,” said U.S. Attorney Jeanine Ferris Pirro. “Today’s guilty verdict demonstrates that if you’re in a predatory crew you will be identified, prosecuted, and brought to justice.” The case was investigated by the FBI’s Washington Field Office Violent Crimes Task Force with assistance from the Metropolitan Police Department and police agencies in Alexandria, Anne Arundel County, Baltimore County, Henrico County, Laurel, Montgomery County, Neptune Township, and Prince George’s County — the jurisdictional footprint of the crew itself.

Blount’s conviction completes the documented consequences for the crew’s membership: two co-leaders at 140 and 192 months, four other members sentenced between 38 and 157 months, and Blount now awaiting his own sentence. Assistant U.S. Attorneys Mark Levy and Michael Lee prosecuted the case.

Current Status

U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson scheduled Blount’s sentencing for March 2, 2027. He stands convicted of all five counts — the Hobbs Act robbery conspiracy, the controlled-substances conspiracy, and the three individual robbery counts — with sentencing to follow the same presentencing process that produced his co-defendants’ terms. The release documents no acquittals, no pending charges against additional members beyond those sentenced, and no appeal at this stage. At 33, Blount faces the sentencing range his co-leaders’ 140-to-192-month terms bracket, for a crew whose lowest documented sentence was 38 months and whose robbery window spanned a full year across four states.

Impact on Their Career/Life

Blount’s jury conviction places him in the last position among the crew’s documented members: every co-defendant named in the release is already sentenced, and his own term will complete the group’s accounting. The conviction record — robbery conspiracy, drug conspiracy, and three Hobbs Act counts — follows the crew’s design of robbing working pharmacies and phone stores whose employees faced armed crews for inventory. For the victims behind the counters in Neptune, Nottingham, and College Park, the verdict is a judicial finding that the crew that hit their workplaces has now been convicted member by member. For Blount, a 33-year-old District resident, the March 2027 sentencing will convert a week-long trial’s verdict into a federal term measured in years, alongside a conspiracy record that documents his role in robberies from the Jersey Shore to the Maryland suburbs.

Sources

• U.S. Attorney’s Office, District of Columbia, “Member of Violent Crew that Targeted Mid-Atlantic Pharmacies and Cell Phone Stores Found Guilty,” November 2026. source