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LIFE SENTENCE FOR HOUSTON ROBBER OF CONROE JEWELRY STORE

On March 5, 2018, Judge Patty Maginnis of the 435th District Court of Montgomery County, Texas, sentenced Sedrick Jermaine Townsend, 37, of Houston, to Life in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice for his role in the October 3rd, 2016 Aggravated Robbery of Jeff’s Jewelry on Highway 105 West in Conroe. On that date, Townsend drove his stepson Javian Jackson to Conroe, where Townsend cased the jewelry store before meeting up with co-defendants Santo Stephens and Kadarius Royston at a nearby convenience store. Jackson got into a white Dodge Charger with Royston and Stephens. Upon arriving at the jewelry store in the Charger, Royston and Jackson, carrying handguns, rushed the store along with Stephens, carrying a hammer. Jackson was shot by a store employee acting in self-defense/defense of others and died at the scene. Royston and Stephens fled in the Charger, where they met up with the second getaway vehicle driven by Townsend.

Townsend was later suspiciously spotted at the crime scene by a witness and CPD officers responding to the scene. During the subsequent CPD investigation, Townsend tried to claim he was in Houston when he received word of the robbery and stepson Jackson’s death. However, witnesses told CPD detective showed that Townsend admitted to picking up the defendants after they ditched the Charger behind a nearby church off of Tink Calfee Road. Townsend also disposed of clothing worn by the co-defendants during the robbery. Following his arrest, Townsend gave numerous inconsistent statements to CPD, including one in which he said he was at an apartment near FM 1960 buying “weed” when he first heard about the robbery and Jackson’s death. Townsend ultimately admitted to CPD detectives that he drove Jackson to meet up with co-defendants Royston and Stephens.

The Court’s sentencing followed Townsend’s guilty plea to Robbery, and plea of True to an enhancement paragraph, based on Townsend’s conviction for Aggravated Assault with a Deadly Weapon in 2005. Testimony from a HPD officer showed Townsend shot another person in the back, which resulted in the victim being paralyzed. Townsend was sentenced to 8 years in TDCJ for the shooting. He was not granted parole for that offense and served all 8 years in prison. Prior to the Aggravated Assault, Townsend was arrested for Arson for an incident in which he smashed the windshield of his girlfriend’s van before setting fire to it using a flammable liquid, according to a senior investigator with the Arson Division of the Houston Fire Department who testified at his sentencing hearing. Harris County court documents presented at Townsend’s sentencing hearing showed he was also convicted of the following offenses: Possession of a Controlled Substance; Car Theft (twice); Delivery of a Controlled Substance; Felony Criminal Mischief; and Terroristic Threat. Following his release from TDCJ for the Aggravated Assault conviction and before the Jeff’s Jewelry robbery, Townsend was convicted in 2016 of Assault Family Violence for assaulting the mother of Javian Jackson, his stepson who died as a result of his participation in the robbery.

Chief Prosecutor Jim Prewitt: “Townsend’s extensive criminal history, along with his participation in this robbery shows him to be a dangerous felon whose violent propensities have impacted many lives. It is only fitting that he be sentenced to Life in prison by the Court. This sentence further sends notice to dangerous criminals that there will be serious consequences for plying your trade in Montgomery County.”

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