Pair from Indiana face prison time for 2 heists

LITTLE ROCK — Two Indiana men were sentenced Thursday to lengthy terms in federal prison in back-toback sentencing hearings over charges related to the attempted robbery of a Jonesboro pharmacy and a robbery later the same day of an Illinois grocery store.

Tavon Lockridge, 22, and Raymond Craig, 23, both of Indianapolis, pleaded guilty last December before U.S. District Judge Lee Rudofsky. The two men were indicted for attempted robbery of a CVS Pharmacy in Jonesboro that occurred June 21, 2018.

Besides the Jonesboro robbery attempt, both men also pleaded guilty to a robbery the same day of a Greenville, Ill., grocery store in a case transferred from the Southern District of Illinois under Rule 20 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure. That indictment was handed up by an Illinois grand jury Jan. 21, 2021.

Lockridge was given sentences of 70 months for the Jonesboro holdup attempt and 63 months for the armed robbery of CC Food Mart in Greenville, Ill., with the two sentences to run consecutively for a total of 133 months in prison.

Craig was sentenced to 71 months for the Jonesboro holdup attempt and 28 months for the CC Food Mart robbery with both sentences to run consecutively for a total of 99 months. Rudofsky ordered those sentences to also run consecutively with a 135-month prison term Craig is currently serving in federal prison for robbery of a Walgreens Pharmacy in Jefferson City, Mo., that happened just over a month later on July 25, 2018.

The statutory maximum sentences were 20 years on each count.