Second Cleveland brother gets 87 months in Western Pa. robbery

A Cleveland man will join his brother in federal prison for smashing into a Pennsylvania gun dealership and stealing 16 firearms, including two assault weapons, and taking them back to Ohio where federal agents are still trying to track them down.

U.S. District Judge Arthur Schwab on Monday sent Reginald Patterson to prison for 87 months, the same term his brother Rayshawn got.

Rayshawn had admitted to various crimes in Pennsylvania and accepted responsibility for another robbery in Cleveland.

Reginald chose a trial. He lost in one day. The jury convicted him of Hobbs Act Robbery and other offenses in relation to robbing a Jefferson County gun dealer and a Clarion gas station during a crime spree with his brother in 2017.

The brothers and an accomplice drove to Western Pennsylvania in December 2017 to commit crimes.

They wanted to rob a gun store on Dec. 22, 2017.

But they couldn’t find one.

They happened to see a gas station in Clarion that was open late with one employee inside. So they robbed it, assaulted the clerk and drove back to Cleveland with $300.

The next day they drove to DSD Sports in Brookville and used a sledgehammer to smash in.

They stole 14 pistols and two assault weapons and took them back to Ohio.

The U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives suspects they sold them to criminals there.

Cleveland police recovered two of the handguns on Dec. 29, 2017, outside the Patterson brothers’ house.

In January, ATF agents from Pittsburgh and Cleveland executed search warrants at various houses associated with the Pattersons and their cohort and recovered the sledgehammer they’d used to smash into the gun store, among other evidence.