A District of Columbia woman was sentenced last week to 32 months in prison for her role in a series of seven inside-job robberies of the Chinatown drug store where she was employed as a store manager, reported U.S. Attorney Jeanine Ferris Pirro.
Pirro said London Teeter pleaded guilty in February to robbery. In addition to the 32-month prison term, the judge ordered Teeter to serve three years of supervised release.
According to court documents, Teeter and three co-conspirators carried out armed robberies of the Walgreens store in Chinatown nearly once a month, beginning in July 2023, when either she or her co-conspirator were working.
As a store manager, Teeter knew the timing of cash transfers within the business. In each robbery, a masked gunman entered the store, forced an employee into the manager’s office or accessed the manager’s office using a code provided by Teeter or her co-conspirator. Prosecutors said the gunman then robbed the employees and fled through a rear exit.
According to prosecutors, Teeter and her co-conspirator took turns pretending to be the victim manager on duty, knowing that the robberies would be captured on internal surveillance.
In response to the robberies, the Chinatown Walgreens hired armed special police officers to protect the business. Teeter was aware that the officers would be present during the robberies and that a co-conspirator robbed the officers of their firearms during several of the robberies.
In the plea agreement, Teeter admitted that the co-conspirators stole and split at least $28,983.
Co-defendant Michael Robinson, who was also a Walgreen’s store manager, was sentenced to 147 months in prison. Co-defendant Kamanye Williams, who acted as the gunman, was sentenced to 198 months. Gianni Robinson, who is Michael Robinson’s nephew, was sentenced to 126 months.
Federal prosecutors had requested a 100-month prison sentence for Teeter but she got only 32 months.
“London Teeter was a key architect of a seven-month scheme that repeatedly turned her own workplace into a crime scene,” said Pirro. “The sentencing guidelines called for 87-to-108 months. This sentence, which is significantly lighter, does little to protect the citizens of the District.”
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