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   From: timmy.walz@lies.alot   
      
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   Johnnie Ward/Sherburne County Jail   
      
   A St. Paul man with a lengthy criminal history and multiple felony convictions   
   has pleaded guilty in federal court to the armed robbery of a St. Paul   
   cellphone store, announced U.S. Attorney Andrew Luger on Friday.   
      
   Court documents say that on April 5, 2024, Johnnie Ward, Jr., 30, walked into   
   a cellphone store in St. Paul, with an accomplice who was carrying a torch   
   lighter, which the store clerk originally thought was a gun. While the   
   accomplice pointed the weapon    
   at the store clerk, Ward demanded access to the safe in the back storage room,   
   telling his victim to “hurry up or else.” Ward and his accomplice   
   ultimately fled the store with several cellphones.   
      
   The robbery was similar to another St. Paul phone store robbery that occurred   
   about two weeks prior, in which Ward had been identified as the robber in that   
   incident.   
      
   Ward was arrested the following day after the April robbery after a woman who   
   had a domestic abuse no contact order (DANCO) against Ward called the police.   
   Ward fled into her house after being told he was under arrest.   
      
   A warrant was eventually executed on the residence, where law enforcement   
   located phones that were identified as taken in the April 5 robbery. Ten of   
   the phones in their boxes were found in a heat vent, another seven phones were   
   found in their boxes    
   under the bed. Clothing Ward had worn in the March robbery was also located at   
   the residence.   
      
   Ward’s prior felony convictions include criminal damage to property, two for   
   threats of violence, and a DANCO violation.   
      
   Court documents state that Ward committed the April robbery while pending   
   trial in three separate cases on charges of first-degree burglary, attempted   
   kidnapping, motor vehicle theft, threats of violence, attempted robbery, and   
   violation of a DANCO, all    
   in Ramsey County.   
      
   Other court records show Ward has another active case on a charge of   
   fifth-degree criminal sexual conduct for exposing himself in front of a   
   13-year-old girl. Ward also resisted arrest and was wearing an ankle monitor   
   at the time of his arrest in that    
   case on March 13, 2024, charges say.   
      
   Ward pleaded guilty in the April robbery on Thursday in U.S. District Court   
   before Judge Susan Richard Nelson to one count of Hobbs Act Robbery. A   
   sentencing hearing has been scheduled for Jan. 28, 2025.   
      
   The case was the result of an investigation conducted by the FBI and the St.   
   Paul Police Department.   
      
   https://alphanews.org/st-paul-felon-pleads-guilty-to-armed-robbe   
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