{"id":42050,"date":"2024-02-14T15:00:32","date_gmt":"2024-02-14T20:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=42050"},"modified":"2024-02-14T15:00:43","modified_gmt":"2024-02-14T20:00:43","slug":"lakeland-man-gets-28-years-in-federal-prison-for-13-armed-dollar-tree-robberies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2024\/02\/14\/lakeland-man-gets-28-years-in-federal-prison-for-13-armed-dollar-tree-robberies\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakeland Man Gets 28 Years in Federal Prison for 13 Armed Dollar Tree Robberies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A Lakeland man has been sentenced to 28 years in federal prison for interference with commerce by robbery and brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence, according to the Department of Justice.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Scott Carpenter, Jr., 46, Lakeland, committed at least 13 commercial armed robberies between August 2018 and August 2021, victimizing businesses in Lakeland, Auburndale, St. Petersburg, Tampa, Brandon, Zephyrhills, Gibsonton, and Temple Terrace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All but one of the robberies victimized Dollar Tree store employees and followed the same pattern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Officials say Carpenter dressed in all black waited for the targeted Dollar Tree store to close for the night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, as the store employee carrying the day\u2019s proceeds either walked to his\/her car in the store parking lot, or after the store employee drove to a nearby bank and prepared to drop the proceeds into the night deposit box, Carpenter jumped out, accosted the store employee, brandished a gun, threatened the store employee, and demanded that the employee surrender the money.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Law enforcement officers subsequently searched Carpenter\u2019s home and truck where they found guns and clothing that he had used during the robberies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives investigated this case. Assistant United States Attorney Michael M. Gordon prosecuted it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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