Memphis Man Receives 30 Years for Five Armed Robberies at Two Stores
Laquarius King, 28, was sentenced to 360 months in federal prison for robbing an Exxon station and Berryhill Market five times between July 2023 and October 2024. The term triggers mandatory federal prison service with no parole and requires the Bureau of Prisons to designate him to a facility within weeks.
news.sky.comMEMPHIS, Tenn. — Laquarius King, 28, of Memphis, received a 360-month federal prison sentence on June 1, 2026, for five armed robberies in which he discharged a firearm, the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee announced.
King targeted the Exxon gas station on Appling Road and the Berryhill Market on Berryhill Road on five separate occasions between July 2, 2023, and October 2, 2024. On two of those robberies he fired a round into the air next to the clerk when the clerk hesitated to open the cash drawer.
Store surveillance video captured the incidents and showed King wearing the same shirt across multiple robberies.
The scope of the crimes directly affected employees and customers at the two Memphis retail locations. An off-duty Memphis police officer witnessed the final robbery from the parking lot on October 2, 2024, and authorities used the video evidence and consistent clothing to link all five incidents to King.
The sentence changes King's status from pretrial detention or release conditions to a 30-year term of imprisonment. Federal law requires him to serve the full sentence with no parole eligibility. The Bureau of Prisons must now designate a facility and begin transporting him within the standard administrative timeline that follows sentencing.
Downstream, the judgment activates federal supervised release conditions that will apply upon completion of the prison term. It also requires the clerk of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee to transmit the judgment to the Federal Bureau of Prisons and the U.S. Probation Office.
The conviction record now stands as a permanent federal felony with a firearms enhancement, triggering standard collateral consequences including loss of certain civil rights and firearms ownership prohibitions.
This case is the latest federal prosecution of repeated armed commercial robberies in the Western District of Tennessee. The Department of Justice release states that King was sentenced under statutes that impose enhanced penalties for discharging a firearm during a crime of violence.
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