Man sent to prison for robbing Abington pizza deliveryman

NORRISTOWN >> A Philadelphia man was convicted of playing a role in the gunpoint robbery of an Abington pizza deliveryman and a judge sent him to prison.

Quincy Evans, 23, of the 2600 block of Elbridge Street, was sentenced in Montgomery County Court to 3½-to-8-years in a state correctional facility in connection with the Nov. 28, 2016, robbery along Jenkintown Road in Abington.

Judge Steven T. O’Neill recommended that Evans be enrolled in youth offender programs while serving the sentence.

After a three-day trial, a jury convicted Evans of charges of robbery, conspiracy to engage in robbery, possessing an instrument of crime, theft by unlawful taking and receiving stolen property in connection with the incident.

Evans’s co-conspirator, Rashon Izeem Singleton-Saunders, 26, of the 500 block of Wanamaker Road, Abington, previously pleaded guilty to charges of robbery and conspiracy to engage in robbery in connection with the incident and is awaiting sentencing.

The investigation began about 11:06 p.m. Nov. 28 when Abington police received a report that a Domino’s Pizza deliveryman had been robbed while making a delivery at an apartment complex in the 1800 block of Jenkintown Road.

The deliveryman told police that when he arrived at the location, a man, subsequently identified as Singleton-Saunders, approached him claiming to be the customer. While the deliveryman was speaking with Singleton-Saunders, “a second male approached him from behind and stuck a gun in his ribs,” according to the criminal complaint filed by Abington Detective Robert Wilsbach.

“This male then told him to ‘run his pockets,’” Wilsbach alleged, adding the deliveryman began to wrestle with the second man, subsequently identified as Evans. “The second male then began to beat him. Shortly thereafter, Singleton-Saunders jumped in and began to beat him also.

“After both males beat him, he gave up and gave them the money from his pocket,” alleged Wilsbach, adding the robbers took about $150 from the victim. “The two males then took the pizza also and ran toward the railroad tracks.”

The investigation determined the original order to Domino’s was placed by a telephone number linked to Singleton-Saunders, according to court papers.

About 80 minutes later, township police observed two males fitting the description of the robbers in the area of the 800 block of Old York Road.

While being questioned by police, Singleton-Saunders admitted his involvement in the robbery, explaining he and Evans used a BB gun “in order to scare the pizza deliveryman so that they could take the pizza and money from him,” Wilsbach alleged.

“(The victim) suffered several facial lacerations and a possible broken nose as a result of the incident,” Wilsbach alleged.