URBANA, Ill. (WAND) – The getaway driver in an armed robbery at a cell phone store is going to prison.
Randy Williams, 29, was one of five people who prosecutors say robbed a Sprint store on July 28, 2016, at 2706 N. Prospect Ave. in Champaign. He waited in the car while Thomas James and Andre Nunn went into the store. Â
In the robbery, the suspects held two customers and two employees at gunpoint while stealing cell phones from the store. They used zip ties to bound the wrists and ankles of the victims.
Williams is the latest to be sentenced and will serve 15 years in federal prison. He has to pay the Sprint store $32,121.81 in restitution.
James was sentenced in December to 19 years behind bars for taking part in the Champaign robbery and a robbery at a Circle K in Kankakee on Aug. 6, 2017. Nunn is scheduled to appear in court for sentencing on Nov. 30, 2018. Another person involved, Jaevontae Williams, is serving seven years in prison after he was sentenced in July.
Williams will be moved to the Federal Bureau of Prisons to serve his time.
