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Date: 03-07-2022
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Case Number: 1:18-cr-00185
Judge: Gary S. Feinerman
Court: United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois (Cook County)
Plaintiff's Attorney: United States Attorney’s Office
Defendant's Attorney: Douglas Whitney for Tobias Riggs
Jerry Bischoff for Joshua McClellan
Description: Chicago, Illinois criminal defense lawyers represented defendants charged with armed robbery.
Tobias Diggs, age 28, of Chicago, and Joshua McClellan, age 32, of Oak Lawn, Illiois, robbed Razny Jewelers in Hinsdale, Ill., on the morning of March 17, 2017. More than $400,000 in merchandise was stolen during the heist, including watches by luxury brands Frederique Constant, Patek Phillipe, and Tudor. The defendants later sold, attempted to sell, or disposed of some of the stolen items in the Chicago area and Atlanta, Ga.
A federal jury in 2020 convicted Diggs and McClellan on robbery and firearm charges.
The sentences were announced by John R. Lausch, Jr., United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois; and Angie Salazar, Special Agent-in-Charge of the Chicago office of Homeland Security Investigations. Valuable assistance was provided by the Hinsdale Police Department, Oak Lawn Police Department, and the FBI Chicago Field Office’s Cellular Analysis Survey Team (CAST). Additional support was provided by the Felony Investigation Assistance Team (FIAT), a multi-jurisdictional law enforcement task force in the western suburbs of Chicago. The government was represented by Assistant U.S. Attorney Albert Berry III.
Two other individuals allegedly participated in the robbery. MARVON HAMBERLIN, of Chicago, was indicted and is a fugitive. A warrant has been issued for his arrest. The fourth individual has not been identified.
According to evidence presented at trial, the robbers planned in advance to rob Razny Jewelers. On the day of the heist, McClellan drove the getaway car – a Lexus sport-utility vehicle – while Diggs and the other robbers entered the store and pointed a gun at a female employee. After the unidentified robber tackled a store security guard, Diggs hit the female employee with the gun and dragged her by her hair to a back room, while he and the others gained accessed to the store’s safe and stole the jewelry.
INTERFERENCE WITH COMMERCE BY THREAT OR VIOLENCE
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INTERFERENCE WITH COMMERCE BY THREAT OR VIOLENCE AND 2
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VIOLENT CRIME/DRUGS/MACHINE GUN AND 2
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SCHEME TO DEFRAUD: MONEY, STATE TAX STAMPS
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Outcome: 03/04/2022 320 STATEMENT of Correction as to Joshua McClellan (SEALED) (Dawson, Sabrina) (Entered: 03/04/2022)
03/04/2022 323 MOTION by USA for forfeiture as to Tobias Diggs Motion for Entry of a Preliminary Order of Abandonmnet (Berry, Albert) (Entered: 03/04/2022)
U.S. District Judge Gary S. Feinerman today sentenced Diggs to eleven years in federal prison, and McClellan to eight years.
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