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Fletcher man sentenced for Dollar General robbery

By Bill Moss, Published: July 31, 2015

A 31-year-old Fletcher man was sentenced on Friday to 10 years in prison for his role in the 2013 armed robbery of a Dollar General store in Woodfin.

Senior U.S. District Judge Graham Mullen also sentenced Anthony Lamont Hill to three years of supervised release and ordered him to pay $4,750 in restitution, Jill Westmoreland Rose, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina, announced in a news release.
According to court documents and today’s sentencing hearing, Hill robbed at gunpoint a Dollar General store in Woodfin in August 2013. Court records show that Hill and his accomplice entered the store right before closing time. According to court records, Hill and his conspirator ordered two store employees to remove most of their clothing and proceeded to tie them up. Hill and an accomplice attempted to destroy the store’s security system before fleeing with $2,500 in cash they had taken from the store’s register, court records show. Hill pleaded guilty in December 2014 to one count of Hobbs Act robbery and one count of possessing and brandishing a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence.
Hill remains in federal custody and will be transferred to the custody of the Federal Bureau of Prisons upon designation of a federal facility. All federal sentences are served without the possibility of parole.

Joining Rose in making today’s announcement was Dewey “Craig” Chillcott, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), Charlotte Field Division, and Chief Brett Holloman of the Woodfin Police Department.
The investigation was handled by ATF and the Woodfin Police Department. The prosecution for the government was handled by Assistant U.S. Attorney John D. Pritchard of the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Asheville.